Compassion Quote by Louise Penny

I learned how to deal with pain, to cry silently, to truly hate with all my heart, to bleed from my soul, to pass…

— Cora

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped…

— Jill Hennessy

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last…

— Jenny Lawson

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

— Oprah Winfrey

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

I learned to love compassion when I began to give it away.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values and the things…

— Amy Purdy

I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some…

— Kate Christensen

My life was forever changed by people who took the time and had the patience to learn my story and to share theirs with…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it…

— Neil Gaiman

I was determined to get back to my life. I had to relearn how to do everything. I had to learn how to talk,…

— Victoria Arlen