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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
We need to empathize with the experiences of others in order to become fully human.
J.K. Rowling
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
Ralph G. Nichols
The art of conversation lies in listening.
Malcom Forbes
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menniger
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn
Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing.
Leslie Jamison
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Josiah Royce
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
Lester Bangs
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
The most important thing in communication is to feel what is being said and hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The most valuable antiques are old friends.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen R. Covey
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William P. Young
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis
Trust is the first step to love.
Munshi Premchand
Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.
R. Williams
Trust is like a vase, once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be the same again.
Walter Anderson
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a two-way street, not a one-way road. It's not about what you can get, it's about what you can give.
Unknown
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
Ernie Banks
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a lifetime.
Mario Puzo
Loyalty is the pledge of true friendship.
Unknown
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Loyalty is the foundation of friendship. Without it, there is nothing.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who is honest with you, even when it hurts.
Unknown
Honesty is the foundation of a strong friendship.
Unknown
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.
Unknown
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson Gentry
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is the key to great stories.
Ami Vitale
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