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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."
"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."
"Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use."
"We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies."
Explore more quotes by A. C. Benson
"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."
"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."
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
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