Quotes About Empathy

Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.

I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever know Love like we do.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

She was, so to speak, an impersonal creature, because of her great heart; a woman who did not belong to herself: God seemed to have made her only to give her to others.

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you.

Who will not mercy unto others show,How can he mercy ever hope to have?

Suffering does make us more sensitive until it crushes us completely.

If a writer has the desire to communicate by writing and be heard, then he necessarily cares about seeing it in print. I suppose it's the difference between masturbation and making love—the real writer wants to touch another person.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.

It is given to very few women to know the beauty of a man's real friendship.

Even their voices go up at the end of a declarative sentence

people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.