Favorite Quotations
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Sympathy
First, Break All the Rules
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore. ~ Golda Meir I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness. ~ Aldous Huxley The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don’t waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves. ~ Gerald Brenan Everybody wants sympathy, but nobody wants people feeling sorry for them. ~ Beryl Pfizer Sympathy: two hearts tugging at one load. ~ Charles H. Parkhurst All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy. ~ Robert Anderson No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy, which is given by love. ~ Henry Ward Beecher Sympathy is your pain in my heart. ~ Adlai A. Esteb Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortune. ~ André Gide There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with. ~ George Santayana Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others. ~ Samuel Smiles Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
"It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man." ~ Albert Schweitzer