"True compassion is about not bruising the other personâ€™s self-respect."

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Naoki Higashida

#Compassion Quotes #Self Quotes #Self Respect Quotes

“If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself”
“The reality is, cellphones have to be used safely. They are today like cars and trucks - we can't live without them, but we certainly wouldn't give a car or truck to a toddler to drive. Why are we thinking it's perfectly okay to give a device that the World Health Organization has said is a "possible human carcinogen" to infants and toddlers, and for that matter, schoolchildren?”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.”

Source : "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.
“In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.”

Source : "Arianna Huffington Speaks To The Nightingale School’s Senior Class Of 2012", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.
“Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye!" He honestly thought it mattered.”
“All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.”
“We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.”
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”

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