Robert Fulghum Quotes

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I'm one of those people that thinks the world changes in smaller and in more mysterious ways than a lot of people like to think. A lot of traditional charities and organizations do things that on the surface seem like a good idea, but it doesn't change the way that people think about interacting with other people.

Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real.

I find hope in knowing that I belong to a state that has a lot of people who are champions of change and progress; that we will rise up and fight for justice and equality; that, ultimately, love will trump hate.

We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

The only way you really see change is by helping to create it.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

We see, we feel, we change.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.