I'm still a bit down in the dumps today, but I don't want to just drown you all in my misery. However, I'm not going to throw up a mask and act fine when I'm not. The solution I've decided upon is quotes about empathy. I am an incredibly empathetic person- to the point that my empathy is a fatal flaw. I am forgiving to a fault and it's gotten me into bad situations before. I think I'm one of those rare cases where my strength is also my weakness... because my deep compassion and feeling for others is what drives my empathy and I do consider it to be a strength just as much as a weakness; and if not a weakness, an inconvenience.
“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.” “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” "To perceive is to suffer." “Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” "Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy." "No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care." “Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.”
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