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“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.”
“Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names th...”
“Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.”
“Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.”
“Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying t...”
“Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.”
“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...”
“Life has two choices: create or destruct. These choices are the backbone for all, within oneself and outside oneself. Too many ways of thinking are described by too many people that have no idea. I...”
“No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.”
“Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, "Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.”
“She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.”
“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”
“Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassions opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.”
“I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.”
“True kindness ennobles the giver”
“SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) 'Without compassion a man is no longer human.' So states Taira.”
“LOVE is measured in GAUGE TWENTY- specifically, love pressure in the surrounding area. If it drops below four percent, though, you may have trouble-the VW might get sad, slow down, or even stop alt...”
“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unaccep...”
“Her own misery filled her heartthere was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”
“The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without s...”
