Sayings | Quotes

We are Humans and we offer sympathy. We always do, sometimes we express it, sometimes, we don’t but offer we do. We are always moved by someone else’ plight, and we offer sympathy to each other the plight is upon us together. But more often than, we are at a loss when we want to express our sympathy, and we end up saying something stupid like, “I understand”. Truth is you don’t. So we say, I am sorry.

What we have here is a collection of sympathy sayings and quotes that will come in handy, memorize them if you must. And you may also use them in Sympathy Cards, or ecards that you send.

“And you should always know, wherever you may go,
No matter where you are, I will never be far away.”
~ Billy Joel

“There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.”
~ Margaret Fuller

“To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.” ~Thomas Campbell

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” ~Robert Ingersoll

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
~William Penn

“A human life is a story told by God.”
~Hans Christian Andersen

“Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about , With silence ‘mid the world’s loud din.”
~ James Russell Lowell

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We pine for kindred natures to mingle with our own.”
~ Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans,

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. ” Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths.”
~ George Eliot

“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.”
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”
~ Ernest Wilfrid LeGouve

“No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers. ” Some unknwon author put it so correctly. Here are some perfection Quotes and sayings.

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
~ Voltaire

“A good garden may have some weeds.”
~Thomas Fuller

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
~George Orwell

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
~Anna Quindlen

“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it”
~Edith Schaeffer

“Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.”
~William Safire

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
~ Eugene Delacroix

“Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.”
~Michelle Burford,

“The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.”
~Doug Larson

“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”
~Lord Chesterfield

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
~Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
~Matthew Arnold

Some Freedom Quotes and Sayings for your mind.

We have freedom but but have have lots to ask for. Lyndon B. Johnson put it best when he said, “Freedom is not enough.”

“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”~ Stephen R. Covey

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ~ Albert Camus quotes

“He who is brave is free.”~ Seneca quotes

“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”~ Hubert H. Humphrey

“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”~John F kennedy

“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”~ Cicero

“The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. ” ~Benjamin Franklin

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.”~ Carl Shurz

“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.” ~Charles de Gaulle

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”~ Greek philosopher Thucydides

“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.” ~Thomas Campbell

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires” ~Bertrand Russell quotes

“Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.”~ Abraham Lincoln

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State. “~ Vladimir Lenin

“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
– Pam Brown

The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.
~Flannery O’Connor

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
~Steven Adler

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~Marcy DeMaree

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author Unknown

“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.”
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
Ruben Blades

“A house needs a grandma in it.” Louisa May Alcott

“The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.” ~ G. K. Chesterton

“When a child is born, so are grandmothers”

“My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.”~ Loni Anderson

“Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that’s what my grandma taught me.”~ Lord Chesterfield

“A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ” ~Author Unknown

“When a child is born, so are grandmothers.” ~Judith Levy

“My great-grandmother Morrison fixed a book rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes.” ~Mary Lawson

There’s no place like home except Grandma’s. ~Author Unknown

“The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me.”~ Todd Bridges

“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.”~ Marcy DeMaree

Here is your page on faith quotes.

“Faith makes all things possible…. love makes all things easy.”

“We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.” ~George Bernard Shaw

“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible” ~ Faith quote by William James

“He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.”~ William Shakespeare

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.” ~ C.S. Lewis

“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.” ~Stanislaw Lem

” Where hope grows, miracles blossom.” ~Elna Rae

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. ” ~ Blaise Pascal

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”~ J. R. R. Tolkien

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

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“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.”

“How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to”

“Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.”

“A best friend is somebody who knows every last thing about you, yet still manages to like you anyway.”

“The medicine of life is to have several true faithful friends. ”

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”

“One of the greatest things about being a teenager is the sharing, the closeness and the great times you have with your friends.”

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”

“Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. ”

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

“Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.”

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.”

“To respond is positive, to react is negative. “

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.”

“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ”

“Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God’s residence is next to min,
His furniture is love.”

“My profession is to always find God in nature.”

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. ”
“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”

Edward Bono, Guru of creative thinking, had to say this about failure, “It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”

“If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything. ”

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ”

“A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”

“If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.” I JUST LOVE THIS..

“There are defeats more triumphant than victories. ”

“Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.”

“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”

“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”

“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. ”

“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”

“Success builds character, failure reveals it”

And how often do we have to reminded that, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ”

“Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. ”

Read and absorb this carefully, “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. “

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

What Helen Keller had to say about Apathy, “Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence”