Quotes About Empathy

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.

Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.