Quotes About Empathy

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.