Quotes About Empathy

To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

Many a friendship-long loyal and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.

There is no physician like a true friend.

One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.

Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.

Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall.

A true friend is not the one you share laughter with. But the one you share laughter and sorrow with.

If only they could listen with their hearts & not their minds, maybe then they would understand that often times it's the emotions not spoken that are longing to be heard.

Treat your friends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.

So I just went over and sat with him. Not a biggie. I wish people would stop trying to turn it into something more. He's just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. But just a kid.

Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.

A real friend helps us think our best thoughts do our noblest deeds be our finest selves.

Friendship is a furrow in the sand.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than it is a friend.

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.

I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self.

Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.

Great friendship is never without anxiety.