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> [“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/seeing-human-suffering-changes-you-it-either-makes-you-compassionate/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

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> [“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve been taught about the enormous power over life and death that is invested in us; we can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/even-doctors-or-perhaps-especially-doctors-need-to-be-touched-by/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

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## Other authors on Human suffering

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marianne-williamson-63745.jpg) Marianne Williamson 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-suffering/marianne-williamson/)
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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-elie-wiesel-32332.jpg) Elie Wiesel 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-suffering/elie-wiesel/)

## More by Jane Wilson-Howarth

> [“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/seeing-human-suffering-changes-you-it-either-makes-you-compassionate/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [“A Glimpse of Eternal Snows celebrates Nepali wildlife: a smooth grey boulder lifts its head to become a rhinoceros; a langur look-out hysterically grunts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/a-glimpse-of-eternal-snows-celebrates-nepali-wildlife-a-smooth-grey/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [“Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/travel-experiences-are-emotionally-loaded-often-there-is-excitement/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [ I think of the irony that in our language \[Nepali\] the word for love can also mean deceit. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/i-think-of-the-irony-that-in-our-language-nepali-the-word-for-love/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/gps-are-almost-the-only-doctors-these-days-who-understand-all/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [“Living in the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/living-in-the-edge-that-s-what-i-feel-like-when-i-don-t-know-what-my/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [“On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/on-life-s-journey-every-person-met-every-place-every-new-word/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [“We found a smooth inviting boulder under a vast banyan tree, and sat in companionable silence. There unexpectedly, on that rock, I saw the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/we-found-a-smooth-inviting-boulder-under-a-vast-banyan-tree-and-sat/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/the-few-certainties-in-our-existences-are-pain-death-and-bereavement/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/good-writers-are-like-magpies-attracted-to-shiny-things-and-storing/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [In Nepal, they say things that start in the rain end well](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/in-nepal-they-say-things-that-start-in-the-rain-end-well/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/travel-is-a-joy-full-of-surprises-perhaps-some-of-the-most-enjoyable/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve been taught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/even-doctors-or-perhaps-especially-doctors-need-to-be-touched-by/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/the-chinese-say-that-there-is-no-scenery-in-your-home-town-they-re/)

[Jane Wilson-Howarth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-wilson-howarth/)

> [“A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-wilson-howarth/a-traveller-with-an-open-mind-grows-richer-with-each-journey-with/)

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