Amy Tan
When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man...Some of our finest work comes through service to others...Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing...War: a massacre of people who don't know each other...I've had a disproportionate share of interaction...Grief is the price we pay for love...
