Victor Hugo Quotes

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be nice. As coaches, we want to see guys develop those kind of things, take those things with them when they leave our programs.

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

With Bojack we are seeing him on this journey. I think we're hoping for him to find a way to be more gracious and kind and positive and better to people in his life and better to himself, but I don't know if I necessarily frame it as he was a bad person and he will become a good person.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.