Sam Levenson Quotes

It's important to allow people to affect you. If we kept that at the forefront of our minds, maybe we wouldn't be as divided as we are.

You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.

Love breeds tolerance, tolerance breeds peace. ... Love cannot be indifferent. It does not know how.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

Peace, unity and harmony!

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

I think everybody can get along.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Can we all get along?

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.