Damien Chazelle Quotes

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.