Sympathy Quotes - Page 2

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.