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"So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad."
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"To demonstrate the deeds of the kingdom is to love and understand the deeds."
"We glorify God when we appreciate humans."
"It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend."
"Only love can inspire us to sacrifice."
"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."
"When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of Peace, find a Human Sunrise. Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality. Human sunrises are happening all over the earth, at every moment. People gathering, people working to change the intolerable, people coming in their robes and sandals or in their rags and bare feet, and they are singing, or not, and they are chanting, or not. But they are working to bring peace, light, compassion, to the infinitely frightening downhill slide of Human life."
"Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?"
"Zarathustra answered: "I love mankind."
"The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out."
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"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
"I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good."
"He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them."
"She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere."
"Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one."
"Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you."
"You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place."
"Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said 'friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier."
"It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin."
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