Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly…If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl
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The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.
Stephen King
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Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.
Tom Gates
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
Albert Camus
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Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Advice to Sylvia Plath, from her mother (via naturaekos)
It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
Sylvia Plath
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
The word f*ck is enormously satisfying.
It’s the 50th anniversary of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, and we could all use a reminder to be kind and to love one another. Here are 17 quotes from everyone’s favorite neighbor, Fred Rogers.
I feel like we could all use this today.
Nothing but My Aching Soul 