Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Quotes to Explore
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
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The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
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By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
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I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.
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The German soldiers, that is, the workers and peasants, will in the majority of cases have far more sympathy for the vanquished peoples than for their own ruling caste. The necessity to act at every step in the capacity of 'pacifiers' and oppressors will swiftly disintegrate the armies of occupation, infecting them with a revolutionary spirit.
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
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More positively, taking pleasure in music is the most obvious sign of comprehension, the proof that we understand it, and we may extend that to sympathy with other listeners' enjoyment ...
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.
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All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.
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Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
