Quotes About Empathy

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.