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Quotes About Empathy

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.
~ Rumi
Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.
~ Janette Oke
A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
~ Richard Rohr
People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.
~ Wayne Dyer
A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.
~ William Arthur Ward
I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
~ Michel de Montaigne
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
~ Joy Harjo
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
~ Epicurus
A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.
~ Noah
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
~ Sophocles
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
~ Gloria Naylor
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.
~ Unknown
A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
~ Orison S. Marden
We are friends for life. When we're together the years fall away. Isn't that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you've come?
~ Judy Blume
A friend in need is a friend indeed!
~ Benjamin Franklin
Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
~ Hugh Prather
A friend is another I.
~ Aristotle
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
~ Unknown
Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.
~ Sangharakshita
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
~ John D. MacDonald