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• To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Attitude, Envy

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• Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

  Pope Francis

  Sheep, Ninety Nine, Long

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• When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Doctors, Together, Males

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• I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

  Frantz Fanon

  Song, Heart, Intelligent

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.27, Grove Press

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• Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Editors, Critics

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2013

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• The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1253, Delphi Classics

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• Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

  Dale Carnegie

  Ideas, Desire, Persons

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.164, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

  Mary MacLane

  Fire, Feelings, Genius

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.116, Petrarca Press

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• No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

  David Brainerd

  Profound, Soul, Able

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• I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

  Erykah Badu

  Thinking, People, Vibrations

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• We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to 'offer' something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Thinking

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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