Paul Bloom Quotes

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

The thing that warms my heart is people. I have just met so many kind folks that want to just pat you on the back and say, 'We love you.'

The pandemic has been such an awful time for so many people around the world, but it has also been a reminder for us about the things that really matter - the people in our lives and the love we have for them.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.

The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren’t treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you’re on the right side?

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.