The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering

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Some Similar Quotes
  1. Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. - Jonathan Tropper

  2. Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise. - Aaron BenZeev

  3. Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. - Bell Hooks

  4. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht

  5. Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going. - David Rossi

More Quotes By Anonymous
  1. Too scared to fight Too afraid to open my eyes Too small to stand up for myself Too awake to fight for my dreams God please teach me to be brave So that I can brave defeat

  2. You cannot put me down You shall not clothe me with a frown You certainly won't transform me into a clown Nor turn my clear black and white into indecisive brown My aspirations, my dreams, my future, you shall not drown Neither can you drive...

  3. Delight in your weaknesses because they make you stronger Delight in your imperfections because they make you perfect Rejoice in your sorrow because it adds to your joy Relish at your pain because it makes your relief worth while Be glad when you are sad...

  4. I know I am brave because the thought of giving up scares me more than the thought of fighting

  5. I am defined not just by what you see, but by the potential within me, the possibilities I represent

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