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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
R.J. Palacio
The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.
Brené Brown
Empathy is connection; it's a ladder out of the shame hole.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure.
Naomi Wolf
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
Ashton Kutcher
Vulnerability is the only way we can feel when we truly share the art we've made. When we share it, when we connect, we create.
Seth Godin
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher
Empathy is the antidote to shame. The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William P. Young
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis
Trust is the first step to love.
Munshi Premchand
Trust is the glue that holds people together and the lubricant that keeps them moving forward.
John C. Maxwell
Trust is the foundation of all human connections, from chance encounters to friendships and intimate relationships.
Brene Brown
Trust is the bedrock of any relationship. Without it, there can be no real connection.
Michelle Obama
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen Covey
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
Ralph G. Nichols
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menninger
The art of conversation lies in listening.
Malcom Forbes
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.
Jim Rohn
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only way to change the world is to tell a new story.
Daniel Quinn
The only way to do good work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Brené Brown
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn
Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brené Brown
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.
Simon Baron-Cohen
Empathy is the key to conflict resolution, because once you see and understand another person's point of view, you can't help but find common ground.
Jenna Dewan
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. It is the cornerstone of human connection.
Gretchen Rubin
Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.
Mark Manson
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.
Steve Maraboli
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only way to grow is to step out of your comfort zone.
Unknown
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks
Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.
Ken Keyes Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
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