Quotes About Empathy

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.

A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Friendship needs no words...

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

A friend is known when needed.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand... but touches your heart.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.