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Quotes About Empathy

Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.
~ Unknown
We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.
~ Kimberly Kirberger
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
~ Joseph Joubert
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
~ Abraham Lincoln
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!
~ Unknown
Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.
~ Gwendoline Riley
Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
~ Unknown
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.
~ Jacques Chirac
You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.
~ Unknown
Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
~ Edgar Guest
The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.
~ Dalai Lama
With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
~ George Crabbe
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
~ Publilius Syrus
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
~ Charles E. McKenzie
Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.
~ Joni Mitchell
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
~ Samuel Johnson