Quotes About Empathy

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

It is better to give than receive- especially advice

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

We touch. For the time in my life, I understand perfection.

If you are not careful, you can end up with many friends to do stuff with and to enjoy stuff with, but when it comes to sharing in the most intimate ways, is there anyone there?

If you want to have a friend, then be a friend.

It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

I hate people who cry around me. I'm not friends with them anymore. Especially girls. Cuz girls are crying all the time. It's like, 'Shut up.'