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Quotes About Sympathy

There must be a true delight in the purity which the law inculcates, for this is the only effectual preparation for obedience. So long as the law of God utters its voice to us from without only, so long as there is no sympathy in the soul with its demands, so long as the heart is alienated from its spirituality, there can be no obedience. worthy of the name.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.
~ Arto Paasilinna
And only when he'd finished and fallen silent did the vague smile return to his lips, in apparent gentle mockery of himself, of the man he had just described and for whom, deep down, he felt neither compassion nor disdain, only a kind of disillusioned, sympathetic solidarity.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Como los seriales de la radio. Vivir emociones ajenas y disfrutarlas.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.
~ Arun Gandhi
CULTURE i must confess that waltzes do not move me. i have no sympathy for symphonies. i guess i hummed the Blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.
~ Assata Shakur
They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
~ Audrey Meadows
Every moment of enjoyment Brings to some one else a sorrow, But your sorrow gladdens no one, For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs.
~ August Strindberg
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
~ Augustine of Hippo
O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) In addition, the Commission succeeded in arousing the sympathy of the people, by sharing individual complaint cases in emotional narrative form, accelerating the necessary shift of government policies. Based on the public sentiment, it also significantly contributed to raising the people's confidence in the government policies that have consideration for the socially disadvantaged
~ Aury Wallington
Only if all members of society can satisfy the needs they share with all others – physical and emotional intimacy, economic independence, and political self-determination – by relying on the sympathy and support of their partners in interaction will our society have become social in the full sense of the term.
~ Axel Honneth
You cannot be a good doctor without pity.
~ Axel Munthe
You did touch me but didn't feel my pain.
~ B. J. Gupta
No man of action has more completely attained the point of view of the scientific historian, who observes the movements of mankind with the same detachment as a bacteriologist observes bacilli under a microscope and yet with a sympathy that springs from his own common manhood. In
~ B.H. Liddell Hart
Positive emotions are not the same as virtue. Virtue is valor, moral courage, persistence in adversity, and protection of the weak against the tyranny of the strong - not hand-wringing sympathy. Compassion is the recognition of sameness, of kinship with others.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
The old pagan has a sympathy with the religion of enthusiasm far above the reach of the modern Epicurean.
~ bagehot walter ix
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
~ Abraham Cahan
I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.
~ Brian Keene
Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.
~ Jen Lancaster
People respond to real problems from the heart.
~ Ethan Coen
At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
~ Alice McDermott
I care a great deal about humanity! I care. I really care.
~ Brock Pierce
A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person's thoughts, feelings, and desires.
~ Gary Chapman
Now I realize that she didn't want advice when she told me about her struggles at work. She wanted sympathy. She wanted me to listen, to give her attention, to let her know that I could understand the hurt, the stress, the pressure. She wanted to know that I loved her and that I was with her. She didn't want advice; she just wanted to know that I understood.
~ Gary Chapman