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“I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any c...”
“Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms.”
“When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.”
“In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mothers feel...”
“Compassion brings people together.”
“The person you think is useless and a nobody today, might be the very person you will need tomorrow. Never look down on anyone.”
“The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.”
“He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.”
“The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views of good and evil, but also of expanding and ex...”
“Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.”
“...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...”
“In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity...”
“Be Relentless in your Compassion for it is Your Power.”
“How can I be so captured by my own imagination that I can truly connect both to the person I'm playing and to the person I'm playing wi”
“I have never had better opinions of woman than I had of her”
“No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in ...”
“You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.”
“People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.”
“The Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing tells the story of the gangster leaders who carried out anti-communist purges in Indonesia in 1965 to usher in the regime of Suharto.The films hoo...”
“When we take into consideration the needs of both ourselves and others, we communicate honestly, compassionately and effectively.”
