{"quotes":[{"text":"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","compassion","compassionate","deep","dictum","dictums","dustbin","dustbins","eat","eating","epigram","epigrams","food","garbage","garbage-can","garbage-cans","gnome","gnomes","hobo","hobos","homeless","humor","humour","insightful","leftovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","meal","meals","philanthropist","philanthropists","philanthropy","pity","poor","portion","poverty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","rich","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerity","sympathetic","sympathy","thought-provoking","thoughtful","trash","trash-can","trash-cans","truly"],"id":26095,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Be the person you needed when you needed help.","author":"Rain Cooper","tags":["companionship","company","compassion","empathetic","empathy","inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational","sympathetic","sympathy"],"id":58365,"author_id":"Rain+Cooper"},{"text":"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","appreciate","appreciation","axiom","axioms","bighearted","callous","caring","charitable","cold","cold-hearted","compassionate","considerate","cruel","death","deep","dictum","dictums","empathetic","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","hard-hearted","heartless","humane","humor","humour","inconsiderate","inhuman","insensitive","insightful","kind","lenient","life","life-partner","life-partners","love","lover","lovers","loving","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mean-spirited","merciful","merciless","need","needs","pitiless","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","remind","reminder","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sensitive","solicitous","stony-hearted","sympathetic","take-for-granted","thought-provoking","thoughtful","tolerant","uncaring","unconcerned","understanding","unfeeling","unkind","unsympathetic","want","wants","warm","waste"],"id":82793,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["apprehension","cry","crying","fear","guilt","michael-bassey-johnson","punishment","sin","stealing","sympathetic","sympathy","tears"],"id":90131,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["compassionate","concerned","consoling","despondent","disheartened","distressed","downcast","downhearted","empathetic","feel","full-of-pity","grief-stricken","heartbroken","humor","humour","impression","inconsolable","moved","people","sad","satire","sorrowful","sorry","sympathetic","unhappy","unsympathetic","upset"],"id":109503,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Stop Sympathising. 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