Shawn Crahan Quotes

'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.

Whether it's with a microphone in your face or if it's just a friend having coffee with you. It's really nice for somebody to ask, 'How are you? Are you OK?'

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

My husband has a gift for reaching out to people in need. I always look over and see him connecting to someone who needs to talk or needs some support.

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

It's an awful world out there. You've got to make people happy.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

We do have a moral responsibility to reach out to our neighbors in need.

We must use our empowerment for the good of others. We must be our brother’s and sister’s keeper.

People call me and they want talk, they need to get something off their mind, I got all the time in the world for them.

We emphasize negativity and violence in the media because that's what grabs everybody's attention, but in the real world, it's mostly people being very cooperative and caring and connected and kind. That's the norm of human experience. And yet, what gets our attention is the very opposite.

I tend to empathize with people, just in general.