Quotes About Empathy

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

The good man is the friend of all living things