Natsuki Takaya Quotes

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.

People aren't inherently sympathetic.

What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

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

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

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

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.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Everyone responds to kindness.