Quotes about Empathy
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
— Robert Brault
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
— Cicero
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
— Arthur Ashe
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
— Anais Nin
The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him
— CS Lewis
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world
— Eleanor Roosevelt
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
— Henri Nouwen
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
— Elbert Hubbard
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
— Seneca