“Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place.”

— Keanu Reeves

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Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964

Thea Astley (1925–2004) Australian novelist

“I'm trying to change the world or at least to make the horrors of the global capitalism visible. I don't care much about art. I used to be a total artist but now I'm more a human being.”

Riiko Sakkinen (1976) Finnish visual artist

"More a Human Being than an Artist" (6 February 2013) http://www.riikosakkinen.com/blog/?show=archive&m=02-2013

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“I was born in Europe and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage

“It is good people who make good places.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: This sentence is widely cited as being by Anna Sewell and from Black Beauty, but it is not to be found in the novel—her only published writing. The closest thing to it is "good places make good horses" in Ch. IX (pp. 45–46).

“The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.”

Chögyam Trungpa book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

“We need to teach, preach, impact love and compassion into the world. Too much bitterness, No love for one another. If only we could be more compassionate towards one another, more kind and thoughtful ,this world be probably be a better place”

Ini Edo (1982) Nollywood actress

Source: https://quotes.ng/mobile/author.php?title=ini-edo&id=1873

“The good news is that our bodies thrive on a conscious plant-based diet, and that this diet is infinitely more compassionate to animals and people and more environmentally sustainable than eating animal foods.”

Will Tuttle book The World Peace Diet

Source: The World Peace Diet (2005), Ch. 5

“People always try to find base motives behind every good action.”

Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright

The Paris Review interview (1984)
Context: People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

“A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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