#path

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#empathy #loneliness #love #love

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. ↗

— Henry Adams

#effect #ends #killing #men #power

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#flowers #good #humanity #inconceivable #life

They do not walk in... the path of Christ. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#path #walk

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. ↗

— William R. Alger

#always #crowd #never #reason #thinks

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#greater #happiness #misery #recall #sorrow

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#criticism #first #sympathy

The best path through life is the highway. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#highway #life #path #through

Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible. ↗

— George Tenet

#antipathy #between #contacts #cooperation #divergent