#sympathy

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ↗

— William James

#community #dies #impulse #individual #sympathy

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance? ↗

— Denis Kearney

#assistance #california #chinese #make #may

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#being nice #either #good #got #gotta

I'm not looking for sympathy at all. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#looking #sympathy

The cure for sorrow is to learn something. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#cure #learn #something #sorrow

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#historian #humanity #like #look #must

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine. ↗

— Kate Smith

#between #get #hearts #i #i do

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#damage #done #emotionally #i #learn

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#foreground #growing #i #into #life

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#crown #happier #remembering #sorrow #times