658 Quotes About Sympathy

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following her. So it was important for her to know that her messages were coming back clear and strong. Yet not even her determinedly bright self-reliance could disguise the loneliness that came from her almost palpably, like a heat haze. She asked for neither sympathy nor help but, like bereaved widow at a wake, she simply wanted company in her mourning.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

None of us can choose where we shall love...

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.