Quotes About Empathy

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES

Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith

The only sins are violations of love.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

And besides, when you love somebody, you mustn't listen to what they say. They say things to hurt you because they're afraid of being hurt themselves. You must look at their eyes...and feel their hearts!

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way

Love that is hoarded moulds at lastUntil we know some dayThe only thing we ever haveIs what we give away.

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.

If you love someone you would be willing to give up everything for them, but if they loved you back theyd never ask you to.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Love and respect will make any good relationship better.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Those truly linked don't need correspondence, When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

The only ship that sinks is a true friendship

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.