“I can learn to pity a fool as I'm the worst of allAnd I can't stop feeling sorry for myself”
“I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you.”
“I'm sorry it took me so long to see you, but now that I do, I can't stop thinking about you.”
“Not "I'm sorry,Ericka," or "I suck," or "I lost all the feeling in my fingers and couldn't dial a telephone." Nothing!I can't believe what I'm hearing.In fact, I can't believe what I'm not hearing.”
“I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.”
“A friend once told me that she understood pity as 'I'm sorry for you', whereas compassion is 'I feel your pain because I see that you could be me and I could be you'.”