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“What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.”
Source : "'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016. 
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“I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs”
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“Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.”
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“Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn ***** when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.”
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“There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.”
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“I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.108, Granta Books
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“Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.”
Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin
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“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.”
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“Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.”
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“I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.”
