pity

Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The cure for grief is motion.

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

Our family never had any hard luck because nothing seemed hard luck to it nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.

He who complains sins.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.