"True
benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the
whole of existence
and sympathizes with the distress of every creature
capable of sensation."
-- Joseph Addison
Sympathy
is the first condition of criticism.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Cautious,
careful people, always casting about to preserve
their reputation and social standing, never can
bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest
must be willing to be anything or nothing in the
world's estimation, and publicly and privately,
in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised
and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear
the consequences.
-- Susan B. Anthony
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How
far you go in life depends on your being tender
with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic
with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and
strong. Because some day in life you will have
been all of these.
~ George Washington
Carver
“News
reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled,
we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is
the sense that, at this moment, people are working,
organising - not just at an executive level, but
on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing
a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits
are being prepared; education kits are being packed.
And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked
and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will
be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic
circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise
book and her first pencil.”
-- Ralph
Fiennes
It
is the duty of every cultured man or woman to
read sympathetically the scriptures of the world.
If we are to respect others' religions as we would
have them respect our own, a friendly study of
the world's religions is a sacred duty.
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"Resolve
to be tender with the young, compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with
the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will
have been all of these."
-- Dr. Robert H. Goddard (American rocket engineer 1882-1945)
*
No
one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy,
kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a
child. The effort of every true education should
be to unlock that treasure."
"A
sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)
*
The
strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family
relation should be one uniting working people
of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Self-actualizing
people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy,
and affection for human beings in general. They feel
kinship and connection, as if all people were members
of a single family.
--Abraham Maslow
"We
cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect
us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic
threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back
to us as effects."
-- Herman Melville
*
"Out of our first century of national life we
evolved the ethical principle that it was not
right or just that an honest and industrious
man should live and die in misery. He was entitled
to some degree of sympathy and security. Our
conscience declared against the honest workman's
becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that
he very often did."
-- Frances Perkins
*
"It seems to me of great importance to teach children
respect for life. Towards this end, experiments
on living animals in classrooms should be stopped.
To encourage cruelty in the name of science can
only destroy the finer emotions of affection and
sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in
the young towards suffering in all living creatures."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
*
"It seems to me of great importance to teach children
respect for life."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
“Reverence
awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through
which we attract qualities in the beings around
us, which would otherwise remain concealed.”
-- Rudolf Steiner
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute
salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom
you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving -- Woodrow
Wilson
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