You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Are griefs then too loved? Verily all desire joy. Or whereas no man likes to be miserable, is he yet pleased to be merciful? which because it cannot be without passion, for this reason alone are passions loved?

And yet there succeeded, not indeed other griefs, yet the causes of other griefs. For whence had that former grief so easily reached my very inmost soul, but that I had poured out my soul upon the dust, in loving one that must die, as if he would never die?

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.

the Sioux did not rejoice. Too many of their own had been lost that day. When

I used to watch Babita and Vinesh win medals. I was happy for my sisters but at the same time I felt bad for not being a part of the contingent.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love.