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“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”

— Leslie Jamison (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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“Torment yourself as little as possible, then you’ll torment me less.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

— Nina LaCour, Hold Still

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“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”

— Azar Nafisi (via quotemadness)

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“I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be at peace with their bodies, their minds, their weaknesses. I try to build them, to find the parts of them that are missing in me. I end up with holes in my chest.”

— Farah Gabdon (via quotemadness)

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“You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what’s special in you.”

— Karen Salmansohn (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.””

— Haruki Murakami

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“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”

— André Breton, What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

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On who was captaining the Choni ship from the beginning — (x)

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“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.””

— Olin Miller

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“She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.”

— Sarah Addison Allen (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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“Sometimes you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.”

— Nikita Gill, Almost Feelings

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“I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I’m losing everyone while I’m finding myself.”

— (via purplebuddhaquotes)