Quotes About Empathy

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Friendship is a two way street not a one way road.

That's when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.

Maybe I can't stop the downpour, but I will always join you for a walk in the rain.

Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about.

Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can't pick us up, they lie down and listen for a while.

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

"Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, because they don't."

If she happens to fall, I'll be there to laugh at first and then help her up afterwards.

Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you… If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.

As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.

Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not happiness.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.

I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.

I loved you enough to let you stumble, fall, hurt, and fail.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

"A woman who opens her heart to love you, when it's already broken, is braver than any person you'll meet."

"Even your past pain can be a blessing to someone. Hopelifters are willing to reach back and pass hope on."