#path

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. ↗

— Laura Carmichael

#empathy #order #play #sympathy #them

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#discrimination #sympathetic #very #without

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . ↗

— Anne Bronte

#deprived #girl #guard #her #herself

We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment. ↗

— Paul Auster

#death

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ↗

— Robert Browning

#autumn #best #decay #mute #sympathy

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#empathy #giving #love #solutions #beauty

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ↗

— John Burroughs

#new #path #something #take #took

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#closely #crucial #deliberately #does #every

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#big #british #british empire #cannot #circumstances

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intelligence #kindness #intelligence