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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.
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.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.