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Quotes About Empathy

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
~ Amy Tan
The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.
~ William Saroyan
Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
~ Jeannette Walls
…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.
~ Louise Erdrich
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
~ Sigmund Freud
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
~ Oscar Wilde
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.
~ Ruth Graham
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.
~ Muhammad
A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.
~ Dave Willis
Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.
~ Ruth Graham
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
~ Douglas Wilson
Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.
~ Dave Willis
Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.
~ John Milton
Love never claims, it ever gives.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream.
~ Ray Romano
Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.
~ Gary Chapman
What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
~ Tom Petty
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
~ Ovid
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
~ Euripides
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche