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"A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man."
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"Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever."

"Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive."

"In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel."

"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"

"Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people."

"Do not judge. You don't know what storm i've asked her to walk through."

"[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness."
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"It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it."

"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."
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