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“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.”

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“The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how lucky or unlucky you are, they keep suffering. And if you can do something about that, then you do it, and you do it without whining or waving your own fuckin' cross for the world to see. You do it because it's the right thing to do.”

Suffering Compassion Suffer

Book:Dark Hollow

Source: Dark Hollow

“Let them not cold-call our attention, besiege our feelings, and disturb our dreams, those dealers in phony compassion selling wishful thinking through merchandising sentimental poppycock. ("Like a frozen image")”

Feelings Attention Compassion Sentimental Wishful Thinking Phony Besieged Cold Calling Poppycock

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Relationships should be built on trust and truth.”

Love Truth Secret Relationship Trust

Book:Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya: For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.”

Love Compassion Buddhism Tolerance Greater Good Universal Love

Author:Gautama Buddha

“If we cannot tame the valkyries of our emotions and restrain the burgeoning crankiness of our actions, we have to empower our mind, at some point, and let time flow on the waves of remission and compassion… and loosen up. ("Transcendental meditation")”

Compassion Meditation Emotions Transcendence Empower Remission Tame Valkyries Crankiness Loosen Up

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“It was a letter that described someone’s misfortunes so vividly that the recipient of the letter would feel better about his or her own misfortunes.”

Compassion Philosophicalfiction Readerswhofeeldeeply Bookclubreads Traumaandhealing Epistolaryvibes

Book:The Little Bird

Source: The Little Bird

“All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.”

Truth Idealisation

Book:The Secret Agent

Source: The Secret Agent

“Along with the pain, an even greater Love and Compassion seemed to gently hold all the suffering of the world in an embrace.”

Healing Compassion Human Experience Divine Love Spiritual Awakening Inner Work Heart Path Tendert Ruth

Book:Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life

Source: Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life

“What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?”

Community Compassion Feminism Empathy Oppression Self Reflection Intersectionality

Book:The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

Source: The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

“Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means 'to suffer with,' which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect.”

Compassion

Book:Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

Source: Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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