“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.”
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“Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.”
“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.”
“Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.”
“Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.”
“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.”
“We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.”
“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.”
“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
“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.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.”
“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”
“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”
“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.”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”
“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”