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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Dalai Lama XIV
Empathy is the first step in creating a community or taking action. It's the centerpiece of my life.
Barack Obama
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action.
Max Carver
Empathy is the antidote to shame.
Brené Brown
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people.
Unknown
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
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
Jewel
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in love and happiness.
Denzel Washington
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Osho
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
The only true way to happiness is to love, help and serve others.
Og Mandino
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The only way to change the world is through acts of kindness and compassion.
Nelson Mandela
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.
Pema Chödrön
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.
Arthur Jersild
Compassion is the key to happiness.
Dalai Lama
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
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
Ernie Banks
Loyalty is what makes us trust. Trust is what makes us stay. Staying is what makes us love, and love is what gives us hope.
Glennon Melton
Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a lifetime.
Mario Puzo
Loyalty is the foundation of a relationship. Without it, there is nothing.
Unknown
Loyalty is a two-way street. If I'm asking for it from you, then you're getting it from me.
Harvey Specter
Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who have it, give it free of charge.
Unknown
Loyalty is the strongest bond between two people, and it is not built overnight.
Unknown
Loyalty is the key to a lasting friendship.
Unknown
Loyalty is the strongest glue in a relationship. It takes years to build and seconds to destroy.
Unknown
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
The only way to make a friend is to be one.
Unknown
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
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 best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
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