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Quotes About Empathy

Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.
~ Nicky Gumbel
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
~ Mother Teresa
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
A road to a friend's house is never long.
~ Ann Richards
Everybody needs one essential friend.
~ William Glasser
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
~ Madeleine de Scudery
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.
~ David Brooks
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
~ Robert Southey
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
~ Aristotle
There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.
~ Phil Callaway
A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.
~ Eric Thomas
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.
~ Susan Jeffers
Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.
~ Frederic Farrar
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
~ Maya Angelou
Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
~ Julia Child, My Life in France
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
~ Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
~ Sallust
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
~ Ziggy Marley
You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.
~ Sarah McLachlan
The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
A friend worth your tears, will never make you cry.
~ Unknown