Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.' It was certainly an interesting theory, ... [but] surely one didn't need to have suffered in order to possess empathy for those who had? All it required was a bit of imagination and a well-stocked library. Anonymous
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The things that people are most obsessed with are usually the things they could change - but choose not to. The things that are most important to us are the things that seem the least likely to change, because we’re so attached to them. But perhaps, if we dig deep enough, we’ll discover that our biggest worries may be unfounded.

Source: The Fitzosbornes In Exile

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