Quotes about Empathy
Two in distressmake sorrow less.
- Samuel Beckett
The greatest medicine is a true friend.
- William Temple
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
- Publilius Syrus
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
- Mother Teresa
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
- Aristotle
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Make friendship a fine art.
- John Wooden
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
- Abraham Lincoln
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
- Publilius Syrus
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson