“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's 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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Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926

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