Quotes on Sympathy

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

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.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

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.

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

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.