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Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.
– Leslie Jamison

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  1. I didn’t enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy. – Leslie Jamison
  2. Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough. – Leslie Jamison
  3. Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. – Leslie Jamison
  4. This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy. – Leslie Jamison
  5. Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
  6. Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (…) But ’tis at the edges that they find their power. – Hannah Kent
  7. Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods. – Peter A Levine
  8. Pain without cause is a pain we can’t trust. We assume it’s been chosen or fabricated. – Leslie Jamison
  9. We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them. – Leslie Jamison
  10. Freedom from one man is just another one. – Leslie Jamison
  11. We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too. – Leslie Jamison
  12. Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight. – Leslie Jamison
  13. facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been. – Leslie Jamison
  14. It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling. – Leslie Jamison
  15. Imagining someone else’s pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. – Leslie Jamison
  16. Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday? – Leslie Ludy
  17. Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. – Frans de Waal
  18. Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance. – Amit Ray
  19. Souls aren’t discrete units -” or even units at all. They’re more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror. – Colleen Chen
  20. empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. – Simon BaronCohen
  21. Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  22. Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened. – Enza Vita
  23. Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified ???????s means you’ve grown up.  – Crystal Woods
  24. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. – Diane Setterfield
  25. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. – Diane Setterfield
  26. There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. – Laurell K Hamilton
  27. This long ride is the blood my heart bleeds… – Jess Chief Brynjulson
  28. Your heart can be broken, but your soul never bleeds. – Deborah Brodie
  29. Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding. – Meghan Lamb
  30. If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. – J Sheridan Le Fanu
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  32. The heart that bleeds, knows true heartache.-Nina Jean Slack – Nina Jean Slack
  33. Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. – Dean Koontz
  34. When all that’s left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next. – Andy Carrington
  35. No. Not really red,but the color of a rose when it bleeds. – Anne Sexton
  36. My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn’t die. – Tommy Tran
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  38. …the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. – Jos Saramago
  39. France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound. – Victor Hugo
  40. Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat – Sonya Watson

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