Hill Harper Quotes

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

We can only learn to love by loving.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.