Natsuki Takaya Quotes

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

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.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and sense of responsibility with or without religion.

We all have to get better as human beings and that's something you can't really get away from.

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.

And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good care of others-and, someday, you'll see how those two things are exactly the same.

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

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

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

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

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.