Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
“Instantly I remembered everything I hated about him. But it was, in a way, comforting to know that he had not changed… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
“To the rich, the really poor don't know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they… — Peter Ojo Copy Share Image
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I became convinced that I was being watched. Because self was still leaking everywhere, a part of me began to think it… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
We Are So Sorry To Hear About The Loss Of Your Little One No One Can Know What You Are Going Through… — Julie McGregor Copy Share Image
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked… — Henry Ossawa Tanner Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Some people in the town did not seem to care about the festival and were watching football on TV. The players were… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I did not feel then that I was lonely, that I had come out from the world into a desolate place. I… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Since I've moved here a Chinese takeaway on the main street has ominiously renamed itself from whatever it was before to the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind… — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For reasons historic, aesthetic, and political, we Jews are most attuned to the anti-Semitism of the far Right - and we find… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Working out that I am not Mizuko has been an important step towards feeling better. If I have hit on a moral,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
