My host family went to a celebration of life and came back with a remarkable quote.
If you want sympathy you can find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.
Chris Zimmerman
How is that for tough love?
I was looking for some empathy today after dealing with frustrating bureaucratic issues. Couldn’t find it, neither in the dictionary nor in real life.
Life goes on.
Bearly 
Sometimes I think the word bureaucrat was invented to describe a person recruited to cause the most challenging and tedious administrative procedures for the general public.
Watch that opening scene of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’ll make you right as rain!