Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room..
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point..
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not..
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive..
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we mu….
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..
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild….
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love..
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile..
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves..
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears..
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. The….
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 ba….
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one..
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood..
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and t….
In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm..
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the gro….
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience..
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion..
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..