Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
– Katharine Hepburn
Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one’s life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness.
– Sri Chinmoy
He kept at true good humour’s mark The social flow of pleasure’s tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
– Thomas Love Peacock
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