"We are not by nature cruel." J. M. Coetzee

"Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep activity,coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer." Norman Mailer

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. Milan Kundera

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father. Daniel Goleman

Sometimes all we need isone good thing to happen in our lives to make heaven our limit.