Compassion Quote by Tim Kreider

““What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.””

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“Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.”

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“We want to be hurt, astonished, reminded we’re alive.”

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“Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool’s errand, is that happiness isn’t…

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“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without…

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“one of those nightmares where it’s the final exam for a course”

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“It’s always a sad revelation when a good friend acquires a girlfriend or a husband and disappears. You realize that, for them, your friendship…

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“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that”

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“Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the…

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“It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.”

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“Most of us liberals are so worried that we might secretly be racists that we’re convinced this means we cannot really be racists.)”

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“Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.”

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“What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder…

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Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

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“I fight with love and kindness as my weapons and compassion as my defense.”

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I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that…

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“If you refuse to use physical force, then you will be at the mercy of your oppressor!”

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For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe…

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of…

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“Helpers in every corner, helpers in every hood. That's how we'll make the move, to reform from rude.”

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There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of…

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May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc) You’d better be glad…

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When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

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But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,…

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