Sympathy

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

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

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

The only cure for grief is action.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

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

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.