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"People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire."
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"We glorify God when we appreciate humans."
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"It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend."
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"Only love can inspire us to sacrifice."
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"Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind."
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"Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?"
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"Zarathustra answered: "I love mankind."
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"Once you understand love, you don't need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don't need a reward for breathing."
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"When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions."
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"As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding."
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"See what love sees. Hear what love hears. Say what love says. Do what love does."
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"Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act."
Freedom
"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."
Wisdom
"You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
Love
"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."
Society
"Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness."
Existence
"People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire."
Compassion
"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."
Society
"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
Language
"Quentin had grown up with that; the mere names were interchangeable and almost myriad. His childhood was full of them; his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names; he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth. He was a barracks filled with stubborn back-looking ghosts still recovering, even forty-three years afterward, from the fever which had cured the disease, waking from the fever without even knowing that it had been the fever itself which they had fought against and not the sickness, looking with stubborn recalcitrance backward beyond the fever and into the disease with actual regret, weak from the fever yet free of the disease and not even aware that the freedom was that of impotence."
Childhood
"If a story is in you, it has to come out."
Writing
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