"A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier." ― Tom Stoppard Topic(s): Sympathy Tags: attitude, contagious, healthy More From Tom Stoppard "I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen." "I don’t act, I don’t direct, I don’t design." "Age is a very high price to pay for maturity." More In Sympathy "Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."― Arthur Schopenhauer "Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow."― Dirk Benedict "Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load."― Charles Henry Parkhurst