Life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
An android, he said, doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for.Then, Miss Luft said, you must be an android.
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude...
By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk. If Tereza had been any other woman, Tomas would never have...
Can I see anothers woe,And not be in sorrow too.Can I see anothers grief,And not seek for kind relief.Can I see a falling tear.And not feel my sorrows share,Can a father see his child,Weep, nor be wit...
Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion w...
Curiosity. It was Oliver Sacks who first made me reflect on curiosity as a form of compassion. An ingenious and creative neurologist now well-known for his clinical tales, he begins his work as diagno...
God is that force that drives us to really see each other and to really behold each other and care for each other and respond to each other. And for me, that is actually enough. That cultivating it, t...
I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
I had observed that neurotypicals criticised autistic people for lacking empathy… but seldom made any effort to improve their own empathy towards autistic people. Pg 318
I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you’d think I should like to share...
Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.
It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I shall have a chance, I do! Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a wa...
Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the eff...
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 the...
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