#sympathy

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ↗

— Confucius

#feel #oppression #should #sink #sorrow

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. ↗

— Tom Ford

#america #had #moment #september #sympathy

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#his #own #shroud #sympathy #walks

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#interest #nations #separates #sometimes #sympathy

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. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#child #effort #every #generosity #hidden

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#far #guidance #instruction #more #require

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #book #books #card #cash

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bear #does #fruit #god #grow

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#ettiquette #manners #sympathy #death

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#greater #happiness #misery #recall #sorrow