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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."

"I have a few friends who are confined to wheelchairs for access and mobility. I don't want to always be looking down at them while they are looking up at me. To enjoy a meaningful conversation, I'm quick to kneel beside them or pull up a chair to talk at the same height. Begin to recognize the orientation of other people and align yourself with their body position and physical needs so that you may connect on a more balanced and effective level."

"As a kid my heart would break for the villains."

"But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them."

"I couldn't think of anyone I'd ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father's angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her. I guess I did know someone I felt sorry for."

"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."
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"If your life means nothing to anyone, it does mean a lot to you and that's what is important."

"One of the golden rules of success is to treat everything like a competition."

"We cannot change our ugly past but we can make a better present."

"The road to success is often paid with so many sacrifices."

"Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other.- Abdulazeez Henry Musa."

"Friendship is not just about having fun, it's about supporting each other in time of weakness."
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