Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom. Oscar Wilde
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
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Joseph Fort Newton
None of us can choose where we shall love...
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Susan Kay
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
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Criss Jami
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling...
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Clarence Darrow
Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have...
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Oscar Wilde
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
The heart was made to be broken.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
