Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

—Pema Chödrön in When Things Fall Apart

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More quotations from Pema Chödrön

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

—Pema Chödrön

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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

—Pema Chödrön

How did I get so lucky to have my heart awakened to others and their suffering?

—Pema Chödrön

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

—Pema Chödrön

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The only reason that we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

—Pema Chödrön

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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

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It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

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I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

—Artemus Ward

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