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Quotes About Empathy

Let your best be for your friend...
~ Kahlil Gibran
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
~ Indian proverb
When you go somewhere your heart goes with you, But when you leave your friends their heart goes with yours.
~ Unknown
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
~ Unknown
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
~ Aristotle
Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
~ Winnie the Pooh
Love is liking someone better than you like yourself.
~ George MacDonald
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.
~ Robert Anson Heinlein
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
~ Unknown
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
~ Apocrypha
A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
~ Wilma Askinas
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
~ Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live.
~ Aristotle
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
~ Chinese proverb
As the rest of the world is walking out the door, your best friend's are the ones walking in.
~ Anonymous
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
~ Arabian Proverb
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
~ Amanda Grier
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
~ Unknown
You May Be One Person To The World But You May Be The World To One Person.
~ Anonymous
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
~ Unknown
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
~ John Sheffield
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
~ Peace Pilgrim