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"Don't judge someone's choices without first knowing their reason."
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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."

"Don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry."
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"Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence."

"It's a lot harder to get someone out of your life than it is to let them in, so take your time!"

"Stop fighting yourself and accept where you are in life. Let this time in your life motivate you to let go of all of the things that are holding you back."

"Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now."
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