People are often kind only to those who look obviously needy or disabled. If someone's weakness is invisible, people often assume everything is OK and expect that person to measure up to society's expectations for healthy people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_disability
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After a 7’1” man was uncomfortable on a plane, a ‘very short’ woman came to his rescue
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/tall-man-gets-short-womans-seat-on-plane-ex1/
A quotation from Douglas Adams
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else’s point of view without the proper training.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 15 (1992)
More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/46078/
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As the cardinals flit about my garden, I always remember those I've lost and it comforts me.
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Patience is the master key to every situation. One must have sympathy for everything, surrender to everything, but at the same time remain patient and forbearing.
-- Franz Kafka
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 101ff (2.3.101-103) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83327/
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Smiles are contagious; so are tears; to see Another sobbing, brings a sob from me. No, no, good Peleus; set the example, pray, And weep yourself; then weep perhaps I may. [Ut ridentibus adrident, ita flentibus adflent humani voltus. Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi: tum tua…
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