Famous Quotes

"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."

John Buchanan Robinson on Sympathy

More quotes about Sympathy

• "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."

  William Wordsworth on Sympathy

• "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

  Corrie Ten Boom on Sympathy

• "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

  Saint Augustine on Sympathy

• "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

  Khalil Gibran on Sympathy

• "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

  William Shakespeare on Sympathy

More quotes by John Buchanan Robinson

• "For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."

• "You are forever alone."

• "Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."

• "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."

• "But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals."