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Sympathy is a sweet thing.
Sep 10, 2025
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .
I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.
We heard the sad news today And had to send this card to say Our thoughts and prayers go out to you There's not lot a lot that we can do But if you need just anything Pick up the phone, give us a ring Even though we're far apart We're with you in spirit and in heart And hope that you will find, at length The love of family will give you strength.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.
We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Work hard at work worth doing.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.
Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.