Sympathy
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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.
When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.
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