Quotes About Sympathy

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life.

[Burke] is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

It is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

friendliness also mean being sensitive to the children's feelings: sharing their joy over a new friend, comforting them when their ice cream falls on the ground, listening sympathetically when they're

Grace makes the heart tender, it causes sympathy and charity. As it melts the heart in contrition towards God, so in compassion towards others.

I thought you were a problem that needed solving. But you don't need solving. You need understanding.

And snakes used to ruin him. Just the idea of them. Shane couldn't bear the thought of those delicate-looking reptiles trying their hardest to travel around their patch of forest while legless and footless. It broke his heart! They were so unfairly handicapped. He used to obsessively sketch pictures of snakes with four legs, until it occurred to him that he was, in fact, drawing lizards.

Eliza, are you crying?" "No." "Yes, you are. Shit, I'm sorry. I was only trying to cheer you up." "You did. It's just that, well, sometimes happiness hurts.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Me and Wiley have got a lot in common. And not just the fact that we're both a bit nuts.

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Judging people is not an awesome job, it only demands being level headed and a good listener and observer.

To be sick is to be diseased, ill at ease, unable to be with others in a harmonious way. It is, eventually, to find oneself fragmented and alone. To be healthy, on the other hand, is to be able to move freely, sympathetically, and shamelessly among others.

Es difícil no simpatizar con Michaux: más vale ser desconocido que mal conocido. La mucha luz es como la mucha sombra: no deja ver. (Prólogo de «Las enseñanzas de don Juan»)

Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, Fear not!

All things on earth have their price, and for truth we pay the dearest. We barter it for love and sympathy. The road to honour is paved with thorns; but on the path to truth, at every step you set your foot down on your heart.

We are not to judge the feelings of others by what we might feel in their place.

You can't get mercy unless you give it. You can't receive compassion unless you give it.

But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel...Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise and superior and humanistic, they need to think of us as sweet and funny, and convince themselves that they sympathize with the way we are and even love us.

Your suspicion attracts suspicion. Jealousy brings more jealousy, hate more hate, just as love brings love to meet it, as friendliness brings more friendliness, as sympathy and good will toward all draw the same to you from others and increase your popularity and magnetic power.

Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.

Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.

Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place.