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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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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Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
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There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame.
