Ellen Page Quotes

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

I do this because it pleases me, and there is nothing I would not do so as human effort goes, to advance any movement designed to reach and rescue perishing humanity. I have a heart for others and that is why I am in this work. When I see suffering about me, I myself suffer, and so when I put forth my efforts to relieve others, I am simply working for myself. I do not consider that I have made any sacrifice whatever; no man does unless he violates his conscience

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

There's so much chaos and trouble in the world right now, and we need to broadcast as much peace and love, too.

When people find out how strong and powerful love is, then this world will be a better place. I want to see this happen one day.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

Everyone can be rude, and everyone can be kind.

I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.

Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.

True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.