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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
"The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?"
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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
"The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me."
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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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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
Communication
"The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember."
Reflection
"She may be crazy but at least she isn't you."
Humor
"Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors " in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet."
Nature
"Why weren't we born in the same era?" he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, "How mundane and cliche would that be?"
History
"I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage?"
Philosophy
"Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving."
Emotions
"You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it."
Intelligence
"There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both."
Relationship
"I'm thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to go on a quest."
Courage
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