Quotes About Empathy

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend

The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins

Good friends have a way of bringing out the best in you By their caring and the interest that they take in all you do

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attentionÃ. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference

Be a friend to thyself and others will too

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies