Quotes About Empathy

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

If we have freedom, we have life. Therefore to live, we must love our fellow man, or all will live with the chains of strife.

Your friendship means so much to me that... When you cry, I cry. When you laugh, I laugh. When you jump out a window, I laugh some more.

I always wish my pets could talk, but then I remember all the things I have said and done in front of them.

It takes patience to listen... It takes skill to pretend that you are actually listening.

My friend falls, I laugh...My phone falls, I panic.

Never ask old people how they are if you have anything to do that day.

One day, I'm gonna make the onions cry...

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

I never leave a dog alone in a car on a hot day. I make sure it's with an elderly person holding a baby.

When someone says 'Id explain but its complicated.' I'm not offended they think so little of me, I'm offended they think so much of themselves.

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

You can always tell a real friend: When you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight".

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

Dont complain about the snow on your neighbors roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish.

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.