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"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."
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"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
"Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others."
"Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other."
"There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs."
"The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you."
"Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener."
"People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ['Le ciel c'est l'autre']"
"Success-minded people know that first and foremost, in all we do, we must think of others first. By thinking of others, how they feel and what they need, will not cost you a thing nor will it lessen what you have to say."
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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."
"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."
"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."
"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic."
"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
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