Rosalynn Carter Quotes

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

Social support is everything.

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.

With #ChooseKind, you can just do whatever you can to make someone else's day better by including people in something you're doing and by just smiling at people.

One of the reasons 'Boogie Nights' is one of my favorite movies is because it's about people in this gross industry, but they actually treat each other kind of like family. And at the end of the day, they're really kind to each other, and I feel like that is what we have.

I needed our fans to know they're loved and accepted, and fear isn't the way to go.

In just my own neighborhood, you can't go one block without seeing a sign that says, you know, 'Everyone's welcome here,' 'Refugees are welcome here.' I love my Muslim neighbors, and so there is truly this spirit of generosity and compassion and openness that still exists.

When I was a kid, we'd go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They'd hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.

Service is a powerful pathway of getting out of loneliness. It takes the focus off of you and puts it onto someone else.

I don't want anyone to ever feel they are alone and no one likes them, or to feel as insecure as I did.

We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.

We're all fighting for the same thing, and I hope that the fight for equality, the fight to help people get over their anxiety or depression, whatever thing they're going through, I hope that we can all come together more as a community.

The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.

I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

You see somebody down, that's lonely, take them to lunch. Encourage them.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.