"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
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23 quotes about Sympathy
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Sympathy Quotes
"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."
"When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult."
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
"For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it."
"Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters."
"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"A person feels the pain in judicious proportion to the sensitive nature cherished in own world; otherwise there is enough fun, happiness, enjoyment and pleasure in life."
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."
"I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed to picking up on political rhetoric."
"None of us can choose where we shall love..."
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
"I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?"
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."
"I walk with a purpose. And a limp. (The limp helps serve my purpose, which is to gain sympathy.)"
"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
"Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love."
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."