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“Empathy? What’s that?” Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. “It’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.”

Book:Before They Are Hanged

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Before They Are Hanged

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Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie, born on December 31, 1974, is a British writer known for his dark fantasy style. His works are highly appreciated by readers, with notable series including 'The First Law' and 'The Heroes'. more

“For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration of my patience have all been refined by bitter suffering. I thank God for the lessons learned. I am a better person for it, but I still abhor those awful trials.”

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Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“You will never develop courage if you don’t stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?”

Compassion Empathy Patience

Book:One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

“I remember a time in a class on a cold winter morning a Japanese girl came with a surgical mask & I thought “wow people would go to extremes NOT to get sick in Japan” afterwards on a break I approached her & asked in a cynical manner: why the mask? Are you afraid of catching a cold? & then she said “in Japan you use it when YOU are under the weather & you don’t want other people to get sick, it is the polite thing to do” wow! that's a lesson I will never forget”

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Author:Pablo

“Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.”

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Book:#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Source: #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

“Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life.”

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Book:Mirror

Source: Mirror

“If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.”

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Author:F. David Peat

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