Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame.
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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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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
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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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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.
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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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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
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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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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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Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
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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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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
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This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame.
