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"When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them."
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"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."
"Compassion brings people together."
"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."
"It is unfortunate that many people today cannot realize the need around them."
"When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ['Looking for the unexpected']"
"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."
"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."
"The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me."
"When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them."
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"To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him."
"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."
"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."
"Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight."
"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
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