Quotes About Empathy

A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.

Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

When I want friendship defined - I look at my friends.

Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.

Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.