Quotes about Empathy

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

To a great extent the world is what we make it. We get back what we give. If we sow hate, we reap hate; if we scatter love and gentleness we harvest love and happiness. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. The kind person bears with the infirmities of others, never magnifies trifles, and avoids a spirit of fault finding.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all                       

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all.

Friends are a comfort in misfortune but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy...