"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."
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"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."
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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
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"When you are sorrowful, look again."
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"Where there is great love there are always miracles."
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"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
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"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."
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"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."
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"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
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"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."
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"No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply."
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"The dew of compassion is a tear."
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"Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you."
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"Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence."
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
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"Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains."
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"The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them."
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"Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral."
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"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"
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"When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding."
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