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"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
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"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

"When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid."

"Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?"

"Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people."

"When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them."

"Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition."

"How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!"
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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

"A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof. Bermuda triangulated."

"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God."

"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

"Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second."
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