Theres no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.
Frederick Buechner
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Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody elses skin. Its the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
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