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"When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to-a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves."
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"If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know."
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Personal Development
"If you can't see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you're not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself."
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Personal Development
"Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others."
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Personal Development
"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"
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"People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's."
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Personal Development
"People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help."
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Personal Development
"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."
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"No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own."
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"Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely."
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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
Friendship
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
Freedom
"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."
Religion
"One man with courage is a majority."
Courage
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
Politics
"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
Leadership
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
Reason
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
Peace
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Politics
"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"
Gratitude
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