It is in our faults and failings not in our virtues that we touch each other and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
The more sympathy you give the less you need.
If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.
You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
We were united not only by political respect for each other but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness sympathy and patience.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons it's merely a routine everyday occurrence in Russia and hardly anyone has any sympathy.
Learning a foreign language and the culture that goes with it is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
According to your sympathy you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.
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?
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.
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.
I believe that we must reach our brother never toning down our fundamental oppositions but meeting him when he asks to be met with a reason for the faith that is in us as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump faith in its future progress and desire to serve the great cause of this progress should be called not a humanist but a humanitarian and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.