If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, m...ake my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason I do not spend my days in despair and my nights in hopeless weeping simply is that I am in love with my own ruin. I the...refore deserve no sympathy, and probably shan't get it: my own profound self-compassion is enough. I am so abominably self-conscious that no smallest detail in this tragedy eludes me. Day after day I sit in the theatre of my own life and watch the drama of my own history proceeding to its close. Pray God the curtain falls at the right moment lest the play drag on into some long and tedious anticlimax.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by ...which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustrati...on. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a sma...ll one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it ...may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But as to women, who can penetrate The real sufferings of their she condition?... Man's very sympathy with their estate Has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, But form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »