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"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."
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Personal Development
"Compassion brings people together."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"It is unfortunate that many people today cannot realize the need around them."
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Personal Development
"When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ['Looking for the unexpected']"
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"I have a few friends who are confined to wheelchairs for access and mobility. I don't want to always be looking down at them while they are looking up at me. To enjoy a meaningful conversation, I'm quick to kneel beside them or pull up a chair to talk at the same height. Begin to recognize the orientation of other people and align yourself with their body position and physical needs so that you may connect on a more balanced and effective level."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Kindness and caring are ambrosia for the soul."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden."
Empathy
"The knives of jealousy are honed on details."
Relationship
"I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do."
Creativity
"I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes."
Inspirational
"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."
Humor
"I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid."
Patience
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