Sympathy Quotes - Page 12

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

For grief is crowned with consolation.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.