Sympathy Quotes - Page 7

• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Friendship, Depression

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• By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

  Johan Galtung

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.

  Florence Littauer

  Inspirational, Christian, Children

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• • People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Children, Cancer, Stress

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 30, 2015

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• The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

  Martha Stout

  Fear, Compassion, People

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.107, Harmony

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• Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox and The Christian Post, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Relationship, Couple

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• One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

  Patrik Baboumian

  Compassion, Bodybuilding, Broken

  "Vegan strongman shoulders 550 kg — a record, perhaps — at vegetarian food fest" by Jessica Mcdiarmid, www.thestar.com. September 8, 2013.

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• Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jun 06, 2011

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• If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stupid, Wish, Broads

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume II, 1926.

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• Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.

  Je Tsongkhapa

  Love, Religious, Buddhist

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Education, Hope, Simple

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• I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit that, on your face girl it just don't show.

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Song: "Take Care" ("Take Care")". February 21, 2012.

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• Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhist, Disappointment, Kindness

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• Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.

  Brad Montague

  Inspirational, Kindness, Empathy

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• But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Spiritual, Atheist

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.338, Penguin

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• Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Success, Trust, Spiritual

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.35, Basic Books

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• Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

  John Chivington

  God, Believe, Native American

  "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (War Comes to the Cheyenne)". Book by Dee Brown (pp. 86-87), 1970.

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• Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspirational, God, Adversity

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• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

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• As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Spiritual, Loneliness

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 05, 2012

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

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Death, Pain, Condolences

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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