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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."

"Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people."

"You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed."

"Mostly we tell the story of our lives, or mostly we're taught to tell it, as a quest to avoid suffering, though if your goal is a search for meaning, honor, experience, the same events may be victories or necessary steps. Then the personal matters; it's home; but you can travel in and out of it, rather than being marooned there. The leprosy specialist Paul Brand wrote, "Pain, along with its cousin touch, is distributed universally on the body, providing a sort of boundary of self," but empathy, solidarity, allegiance--the nerves that run out into the world--expand the self beyond its physical bounds."

"If you see a person who is suffering from misery and sadness, wash it away with your compassion and kindness."
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"I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do."


"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."


"I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid."
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