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Quote by Frederick Buechner
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is

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

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldnt have been complete without you. – Frederick Buechner

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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. – Frederick Buechner

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Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death. – Frederick Buechner

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