Sympathetic Quotes

• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

  Henry Melvill

  Life, Sympathy, Beautiful

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• A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

  Homer

  Friendship, Family, Sympathy

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

  George Saunders

  Compassion, Earth, Reason

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Cancer, Patriotic, Thinking

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

  Helen Rowland

  Beautiful, Men, Inspire

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• Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

  Richard Carlson

  Gratitude, Pain, Real

  Richard Carlson (2011). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

  Pablo Picasso

  Sympathy, Artist, Understanding

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Mad, People

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• Pre-suasion is the practice of getting people sympathetic to your message before they experience it. It's the ability to cause people to have something at the top of their consciousness that makes them receptive to your message that's yet to come.

  Robert Cialdini

  People, Consciousness, Ability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

  Euripides

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  "Antigone". Play by Euripides, estimated between 420 and 406 BCE.

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• The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Golf, Hands, Done

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

  Lee Child

  Lying, Telling The Truth, Easy

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• I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

  Tilda Swinton

  Kindness, People, Stupidity

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• The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Leadership, Art, Business

  "Men Against Fire : The Problem of Battle Command in Future War". Book by S.L.A. Marshall, p. 160, 1954.

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• Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Sympathy, God, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner (2015). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.7, RSP

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• Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Path, Recognition

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• There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

  Edward Hopper

  Humility, Artist, Thinking

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  Ted Dexter

  Mean, House, Cracks

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• I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

  Elia Kazan

  Struggle, People, Outsiders

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• If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

  Jason Segel

  Creepy, Lines, Ifs

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• I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

  Lydia Lunch

  Lunch, Mad, Busy

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• Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Hands, Romance, Enemy

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

  Edward Carpenter

  Men, Crowds, Firsts

  "My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes".

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