Quotes About Empathy

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love.

Treat your fiends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.