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Quotes on Sympathy

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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
RumiRead
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Read
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.
Emily DickinsonRead
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel ButlerRead
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
John IrvingRead
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Henry MelvillRead
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Hermann HesseRead
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Erich FrommRead
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
A. A. MilneRead

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