Quotes About Empathy

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes

I may not be a smart man but I know what love is

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you don't say.

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.