“The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.”
Source: Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Melody Beattie 11
American writer 1948Related quotes
“That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
After the Cooney fight, as quoted in "Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It" by Tom Callahan in TIME (21 June 1982) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925485-3,00.html.
Interview with Oded Fehr http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/69_interview_with_oded_.htm (2001)
“I take the greatest lesson from compassion — it takes away all the conceit out of my life.”
February 27
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
Source: Diane Sawyer interview (ABC, 1993)
“The hardest lesson that I learned is that “rejection is protection.””
Rejection never feels good, but as artists I think we tend to take rejection so personally. It can cause us to doubt our work or talent. However, rejection isn’t always someone saying we don’t like your work or you’re not talented. Sometimes it’s someone else recognizing that they can’t give you what you need to fly. It’s a venue saying this is not quite the right fit for you right now. That doesn’t mean that you won’t find home for your work. That doesn’t mean that venue won’t come looking for you one day. It means you have to keep working hard until you find the perfect fit and when the time is right it will work itself out.
On learning to take rejection in “Q&A Session with Award-Winning Author, Sheri Booker” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interview-with-award-winning-author-sheri-booker_b_5684760 in HuffPost (2014 Aug 19)
“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh