I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy.
The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the qu...
It's horrible if someone delights in someone's failures. It's horrible if someone feels bad when someone does good.
Some of us manage to think bigger, brighter, deeper thoughts. Some of these thoughts already shape the kind of research we do. Some of them will prove to be right, and our understanding of our home wi...
The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity...
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory ca...
One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got u...
empathy is more powerful than sympathy
When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.
If you've been on this side, then you'll have more compassion and understanding for those still on this side when you get to the other side, because you know how it feels like to be on this side. Some...
You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job.
Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.
I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.
When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world...
They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened.
Everyone carries a burden. Only the weight differs.
No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.
If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.
Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.
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