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"The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless."
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"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
"There is something lovable about almost everyone you encounter. Uncover it, and you will experience true compassion."
"If only you would understand the silent speech and the real pain within the innermost man of they that suffer in silence, you would never keep silent to their suffering. So many people can't speak everything about how they are suffering for the sake of dignity and confidentiality. Though they smile, they smile out of a deep pain within. When you look at someone suffering, just see how he is suffering and in so far as you can, be the joy to the innermost man of the person to the best of your ability. Don't wait for his words, just look and see!"
"The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens."
"Kindness alchemizes the soul, and a sweeter, richer life is the delicious result."
"A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy."
"Be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief."
"We're all going through shit.Each one of us, in our own way.Let's remember that, when we see each other on the street,in stores, at work, and at home. Everywhere.Being human comes with lots of complications and probably too many hardships. We all struggle.So let's be good to one another, and cut each other some slack."
"It is love, has been love, will always be love that makes the biggest difference in our world."
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"But that is what life is all about, he said. 'It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love."
"Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?"
"There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything."
"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"
"But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him."
"Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.'There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our heads to rules ours hearts.'Emotion is our human weakness.,' she said, 'reason our strength.'And love,' he said, 'is our destiny."
"My life will be what I make it,' he told her. 'That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot know what the future will bring or how the events of the future will make us feel. We cannot even plan and feel any certainty that our most carefully contrived plans will be put into effect. Could I have predicted what happened to me in the Peninsula? Could you have predicted what happened to you in Cornwall? But those things happened to us nevertheless. And they changed our plans and our dreams so radically that we both might have been excused for giving up, for never planning or dreaming again, for never living again. That too is a choice we all have to make."
"She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it was through such freedom that we worked our way through life and learned what we needed to learn. But sometimes, it seemed to her, there was something, some sign, to nudge one along in a certain direction. What one chose to do with that nudge was up to that person."
"I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness."
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