{"quotes":[{"text":"With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["happiness","humanity","humanity-and-society","joy","joy-of-life","joyful-living","kindness","kindness","love","mercy","sympathetic-people","sympathy"],"id":2884,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"No one really understands the grief or joy of another.","author":"Franz Schubert","tags":["sympathy"],"id":5032,"author_id":"Franz+Schubert"},{"text":"As a kid my heart would break for the villains.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["child","compassion","empathy","funny","heart","heartbreak","heartbroken","hero","humor","pity","sympathy","villain"],"id":5847,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"It has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even their physicians) some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.","author":"William Styron","tags":["comprehension","depressed","depression","health","mental-illness","pain","sufferer","sympathy","torment","understanding"],"id":6874,"author_id":"William+Styron"},{"text":"I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.","author":"Donald Trump","tags":["children","good","sympathy "],"id":9019,"author_id":"Donald+Trump"},{"text":"Grief is the price we pay for love.","author":"Queen Elizabeth II","tags":["sympathy","grief","price "],"id":12594,"author_id":"Queen+Elizabeth+II"},{"text":"We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["compassion","empathy","human-flaws","human-frailties","loneliness","loneliness","love","love","self-acceptance","self-awareness","self-love","sympathy"],"id":14384,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["compassion","death","friendship","illness","love","solidarity","sympathy"],"id":16036,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.","author":"Corrie Ten Boom","tags":["today","sympathy","tomorrow "],"id":16249,"author_id":"Corrie+Ten+Boom"},{"text":"Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["decision-making","empathy","food-for-thought","life","life-challenges","opposition","pride","sympathy"],"id":18634,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":288,"pages":29,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}