Haruki Murakami Quotes

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.

Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

Beauty is found in the way you treat others.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.