Quotes About Empathy

The power of presence differentiates friends and add great value to friendships.

Friendship with children helps them to open up to their parents.

One good friendship can birth many different relationships in your life.

Real friends change because they want to; not because you want them to.

Be a real friend to people; it's the only way you can be affected by the feelings of their infirmities and prove your real love for them.

Seek to love your friends for who they are and you'll receive a greater love and passion to make a great difference in their lives.

Every friend is different. When you come close to people in friendship, try to know who they are before you attempt to impact their lives.

Your real friend recognizes your uniqueness and appreciates your value.

Be nice to people. On phone and in-person. Don't wait to know a person before you treat them well; treat them well because you're a good person. That's how true friends live.

Have a good heart towards strangers and new friends.

Trapped in every stranger is a hidden friend.

You're both a stranger and a friend. You're a friend to those who know you and a stranger to those who don't know you yet. So live by the Golden Rule.

Every friend was once a stranger.

Everyone possesses the spirit of his friend.

Richard Farson, professor at the Humanistic Psychology Institute in San Francisco, says, "Millions of people in America have never had one minute in their whole lifetime where they could 'let down' and share with another person their deeper feelings.

Know the spirit of every friend you make before you bond with them.

Your friends become one with your spirit. That's why people who stay too long in friendship, eventually begin to resemble each other and reason alike.

Any friend you make becomes one with your spirit.

Friendship is a relationship for spirits.

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side.

Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling -- this is a further effect of our shared sorrow, this empathy, this mournful telepathy.

Tendo a non fare molto caso alle altre persone – l'ho già detto in precedenza, è uno dei miei difetti più gravi – e nelle rare occasioni in cui metto la testa fuori dal guscio e do una bella occhiata, quello che mi colpisce in modo strabiliante non è quanto siano diversi da me, ma quanto siano simili, malgrado tutto.

his father was still living, and the living require more thought.

Do not look so worried, Anna said, I hated you too a little, we were human beings, after all.