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"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."
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"Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It makes us dream more positively. It makes us more optimistic about ourselves and the world even in our darkest days. It makes us achieve our goal endowed with strength even through immense miseries. It allows us to attain the subjective reality of our fellow humans. Imbued with the understanding of the mind we can walk in the shoes of other people."

"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."

"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."

"The poor, the illiterate, the helpless, the distressed - let these be your God."

"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

"If Erik existed and lived life in despair,We wish him to know we are here and we care."

"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant."

"They are the humans, who are uniquely adorned with the priceless characteristic of empathizing. They are the humans who shed tears full of purity and piety, when they see even a complete stranger in pain and misery. They are the humans who come together to save a kid in the neighborhood when he is trapped under the wreckage of his fallen home, regardless of caste, creed and religion."

"Your heightened awareness of their perceptions, experiences, emotions, and personality styles can reveal why they feel the way they do so that you can choose your responses wisely and compassionately."
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"There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap."


"Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time."


"In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams."


"Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears."


"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."


"I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer " its dust and lowering skies."


"I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's go home."
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