Quotes About Empathy

The fun is having friends who help each other get free.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

Friendship is identification and difference

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.