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Quotes About Empathy

I'm not really a relationship expert but ... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.
~ Steve Harvey
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
~ Roger Ebert
If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.
~ Douglas Conant
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.
~ Miranda Kerr
Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds
My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.
~ Star Jones
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.
~ Dorothy Richardson
Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.
~ Cherie Carter-Scott
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
~ Ed McMahon
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!
~ Paulo Coelho
Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.
~ Nathaniel Branden
The relationship is the communication bridge between people.
~ Alfred Kadushin
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
~ Franz Kafka
Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
~ Pam Grier
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
~ Nick Clooney
We read to know we're not alone.
~ William Nicholson
Forgive me for needing you to be strong forever. Forgive me for fearing your unhappiness. As you suffer so I shall suffer. As you endure so I shall endure. Hold my hands and walk the old walk one last time, then let me go.
~ William Nicholson
We read to know we're not alone.
~ William Nicholson
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
~ William Nicholson
All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.
~ William Nicholson