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"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt."
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"With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be."

"Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes; it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy."

"And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion."

"No matter who it is or what you think of them, never rejoice in the pain of others. It lowers you to a level you should not be at."

"Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient's mind, awaiting his awakening."

"How often do we listen and act to the call of honesty, serenity, humility and generosity?How many "soft pillows" do we use for a life time?If only everyone uses a "soft pillow," then what a better world it could be to have many genuine hearts."

"When we harm others we harm ourselves, when we help others we help ourselves."

"If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me."

"In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light."

"With the glorious flames of compassion in your heart, embrace the goodness from all religions."
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"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."


"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."


"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."


"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."


"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."


"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."


"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
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