Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peached and joy finally for you too.

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"In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment."

- Frederick Buechner

Awareness

"The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it."

- Frederick Buechner

Transformation

""Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.""

- Frederick Buechner

Courage

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid."

- Frederick Buechner

Courage

"Go where your best prayers take you"

- Frederick Buechner

Faith

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"Beauty is a gentle and loving heart."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"There is no greater beauty than kindness and compassion."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Selflessness is the most beautiful trait one can possess."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"A kind heart can bring light to the darkest of places."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

- Flora Edwards

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