"The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves."

-- Gerald Brenan

#Sympathy Quotes #Sorry Quotes #People Quotes

“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.”
“The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.”

Source : "Computers Then and Now". Journal of the ACM 15, Sect. 4, (pp. 1-7), January 1968.
“And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.”
“I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.”

Source : "Not My Job: Comedian Jenny Slate Gets Quizzed On Jennifer Lopez". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.
“How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!”
“To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the manifestation of the universal mind. His inner vision an expression of the highest reality, and his speech an expression of eternal truth and mantric power.”

Source : Anagarika Govinda (1987). “Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism”, Random House (UK)
“The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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