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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."
"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."
"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."
"Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others."
"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?"
"People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help."
"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."
"In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through."
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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