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.
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.