Quotes About Empathy

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

A real friend ... exults in his friendÂ's happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

Best friends are people you know you don't need to talk to every single day. You don't even need to talk to each other for weeks, but when you do, it's like you never stopped talking.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

To friendship every burden's light.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.

A person who has no friends, lives only half way.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.