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"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."

"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."

"The poor, the illiterate, the helpless, the distressed - let these be your God."

"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

"If Erik existed and lived life in despair,We wish him to know we are here and we care."

"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant."

"They are the humans, who are uniquely adorned with the priceless characteristic of empathizing. They are the humans who shed tears full of purity and piety, when they see even a complete stranger in pain and misery. They are the humans who come together to save a kid in the neighborhood when he is trapped under the wreckage of his fallen home, regardless of caste, creed and religion."

"Your heightened awareness of their perceptions, experiences, emotions, and personality styles can reveal why they feel the way they do so that you can choose your responses wisely and compassionately."

"Don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry."
Explore more quotes by Chuck Klosterman

"You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview."

"In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one person - the 'journey of a particular 'hero, in the lingo of the mythologist Joseph Campbell - as a prism for understanding everything else."

"When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day."

"It's easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing with a monster."

"It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide 'This is a movie I don't like,' basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive."

"There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience. But there are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about the future might be wrong: humility and wonder."

"And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually."
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