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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of… — Khalil Gibran
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people… — Charles Spurgeon
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. — Nigella Lawson
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind. — Walter J. Phillips
The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was… — Abraham Lincoln
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for… — Thornton T. Munger
Flowers grow out of dark moments. — Corita Kent
I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I… — Stonewall Jackson
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt… — Yehuda Berg
Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth of the parents… — James E. Faust
Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little… — Swami Vivekananda
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits… — Felix Dennis
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. — Ovid
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. — Hilaire Belloc
About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything… — Ayn Rand
I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. — Oscar Wilde
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is… — James Madison

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