"To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)"

-- Stephen Batchelor

#Compassion Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.”
“Keep starting until you finish.”
“Cassandra,â€ he said, â€œI hope you know that poaching Muppets is illegal in this country.”
“We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.”
“Time expands and contracts. When it expands, itâ€™s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesnâ€™t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place youâ€™ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness”
“Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.”
“Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.”
“Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.”

Source : Flavius Josephus (1825). “The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus”, p.128

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