Quotes About Empathy

Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

True friendship is never serene

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Help the stranger for it might be God, Jesus, or the Devil. If the devil is mad at you where else do you have to go?

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 in the right.

A friend is a person who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is 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.

A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

Giving a sincere apology and using these ways to say sorry can help restore your relationship with your husband or wife, and can help you grow in humility, as well. And its critical to saving marriage.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.