Quotes about Empathy
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
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.
— Steve Jobs
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
— Brigham Young
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
— Elbert Hubbard
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson