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Quotes About Empathy

Kind people are the best kind of people.
~ Author Unknown
There is no burnt rice to a hungry person.
~ Philippine Proverb
Listen with your feelings, see with your heart.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.
A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck.
~ Jewish Saying
The least unkindness from a friend is of greater smart than the hardest usage from an enemy.
~ Greek proverb
A small wrong from a friend makes a greater wound in a man's heart than a great wrong from an enemy.
~ Spanish proverb
Treat the patient, not the X-ray.
~ James M. Hunter, 1964
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
~ John Brown
When a doctor has pulled you through why you always got a warm place in your heart for him.
~ Will Rogers
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.
~ Chinese proverb
Talking to your best friend is sometimes all the therapy you need.
~ Author Unknown
Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier.
~ Author Unknown
Nothing compares to the pain of a belly ache from laughing too hard with your best friend.
~ Author Unknown
I did nothing but comfort my plants, till now their small green cheeks are covered with smiles.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1865
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.
~ Elizabeth Andrew
Each good deed strengthens our angel wings.
~ Terri Guillemets
No man stands so straight as one who stoops to help a child.
~ James J. Davis, c.1920s
God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through.
~ Author Unknown
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
~ Author Unknown
The four most important words in the English language are: "How can I help?"
~ Author unknown, c. 1960s
It takes so little to make a stranger's day, and even less to totally ruin it.
~ Demetri Martin
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
~ Author Unknown
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
There should be no tear on your cheek, dear, had my hand the access to brush it away.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1881