Quotes about Empathy
Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
— CS Lewis
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
— Elbert Hubbard
I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
— CS Lewis
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
— Mother Teresa
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
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