Quotes About Empathy

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

A good friend can shield you from the storm

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.