Neil Sheehan Quotes

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

I love everything about the human experience.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man

In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.