"Compassion is an action word with no boundaries."
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"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
"Grief is the price we pay for love."
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
"I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console."
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
"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."
"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
"If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain."
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."
"Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."
"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
"Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved."