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feel for

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Meaning

share the suffering of

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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. Arthur Schopenhauer

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another. Marilyn Monroe

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. Miguel de Cervantes

nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity. Audrey Hepburn

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them. Rex Stout

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. Arthur C. Brooks

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