Quotes About Sympathy

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

A well man at sea has little sympathy with one who is seasick; he is too apt to be conscious of a comparison favorable to his own manhood.

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.

It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.

I saw what he was afraid of doing and I had sympathy, for however hard we fought, we must be beaten by empty bellies. The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

What we want, finally, from friends, is that they have no more clue than we do.

It has been acceptable for some time in America to remain wound identified (that is, using one's victimhood as one's identity, one's ticket to sympathy, and one's excuse for not serving), instead of using the wound to redeem the world, as we see in Jesus and many people who turn their wounds into sacred wounds that liberate both themselves and others.

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more it is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for, the very One who created you.

Human sympathy is the best and easiest way to open the heart space and to make us live inside our own bodies. God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there. Our central message again bears repeating: God loves things by becoming them. We love God by continuing the same pattern.

God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God.

God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there.

It always amazed me how little he understood what I was feeling. It meant, among other things, that my understanding of him probably wasn't much better.

For the first time, Cupid's gaze seemed sympathetic. Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. His voice sounded smaller, much more human. Sometimes it makes you incredible sad. But at least you've faced it now. That's the only way to conquer me.

Focus on their feelings, not the facts. Begin with sympathy, not solutions.

That was the thing about hospitals, anyone could wander into your room and gawp at you when you were at your very lowest, your most unflattering.

Harold?' 'Poor man, I suppose

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Then the candor of the woman's whole existence, which every one might read, and which formed so striking a contrast to her own habitual reserve—this might have furnished a link. Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Cine È™tie ce metale folosesc zeii atunci când f?uresc acea leg?tur? pe care o numim simpatie È™i pe care am putea-o numi la fel de bine iubire?!

It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.

Sorry.' He lowered his head and sniffed the floor. But, reader, he was not smelling. He was listening, with his big ears, to the sweet sound that no other mouse seemed to hear.

Hush"Robinetta answered, putting a finger on his lip; it isn't a question of how great you are or how wonderful: it is a question of what we can be to each other.