Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a life of cruelty. That means trying to make sure I look people in the eye when I meet them. Sometimes you jump in a taxi, or maybe you only have two minutes with someone, and you never see them again. I try to always look them in the eye and have a real experience of what it is to communicate with someone.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family.

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

The reality is that we communicate with every part of our being, and there are times when we must use it all. When someone needs us, he or she needs all of us. There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.