Quotes About Empathy

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

If you have a friend worth loving, Love him. Yes, and let him know That you love him, ere life's evening Tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend till he is dead?

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times, however, avoid friends who sympathize too deeply, who give us pity rather than strength.

He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er, and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of getting out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values; the other half is tolerance in one's own views.

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it.

No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.