Sympathy Quotes - Page 9

• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

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• To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

  Tryon Edwards

  Grief, Grieving, Giving

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.295

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• Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

  Virgil

  Suffering, Affliction, Pity

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• Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

  William Hazlitt

  Perfect, Indifference

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• Though nothing can bring back the hour
  Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Condolences, Grief

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 177 (1807)

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Valentines Day, Hope

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.348, Classic Books Company

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• Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

  Sri Chinmoy

  Condolences, Thinking, Grieving

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise

  Anna Laetitia Waring

  Heart, Leisure

  Anna Laetitia Waring, “Father, I Know That All My Life”

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• 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.

  True Friend, Giving, Soul

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
  Never dejected while another's blessed.

  Alexander Pope

  Blessed, Men, One Man

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.125

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• Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Heart, Two, Tugging

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• Death is the most blessed dream.

  Georg Buchner

  Dream, Blessed, Death Sympathy

  "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Büchner, Act II, 1838.

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• 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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

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• Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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  My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

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• Compassion is a verb.

  Nhat Hanh

  Wisdom, Compassion, Empathy

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• But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

  Charlene Costanzo

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

  Val Plumwood

  Relationship, Nature, Failure

  Val Plumwood (2005). “Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason”, p.9, Routledge

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• The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.

  Sargent Shriver

  Love, Life, Journey

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• All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

  Lon Chaney, Jr.

  Father, Character, Winning

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• Solidarity, compassion, caring, communion and loving. Such values and inner powers can lay the foundation of a new paradigm of civilization, the civilization of the humanity reunited in the Common House, on the Planet Earth our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

  Leonardo Boff

  Love, Inspirational, Caring

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• Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Compassion

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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