Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Tribes don't need Congressmembers' sympathy. What tribes need is for us to properly exercise our duty.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

It's difficult when you're on loan, especially when you're not a young player who people may have sympathy for.

If someone needs help, I don't do tea and sympathy, but I'm honest and practical - that's how I was brought up.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

'Ninnu Kori' urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

Moreover, Hispanics' sympathy for big government represents a cultural predilection as well as an economic one.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

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

I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

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