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title: "4 Compassion Listening Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Compassion can be a listening ear and safe space and it can be tough love and clear boundaries. Compassion can be receptive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kemmy-nola/compassion-can-be-a-listening-ear-and-safe-space-and-it-can-be-tough/)

[Kemmy Nola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kemmy-nola/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/kemmy-nola-763_being-there-for-some_compassion-can-be-a-listening-ear-and-sa_601390.jpg)

> [Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/difficult-as-it-is-really-to-listen-to-someone-in-affliction-it-is/)

[Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-weil/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cd/simone-weil-544_affliction_difficult-as-it-is-really-to-listen-to-s_709259.jpg)

> [“Let your kindness, your compassion and your listening ear speaks itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/euginia-herlihy/let-your-kindness-your-compassion-and-your-listening-ear-speaks-itself/)

[Euginia Herlihy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/euginia-herlihy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/810/euginia-herlihy-998_communication_let-your-kindness-your-compassion-and-yo_1636216.jpg)

> [“Compassion: listening to a month’s worth of snivelling when you break up with yet another asshole.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martyn-v-halm/compassion-listening-to-a-month-s-worth-of-snivelling-when-you-break/)

[Martyn V. Halm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martyn-v-halm/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/martyn-v-halm-54720_compassion_compassion-listening-to-a-month-s-worth_1998280.jpg)

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