Vera Farmiga Quotes

Love is the biggest thing. I feel that if we all were truly loving to each other, I think life would be better. Even to like, a stranger. They could be going through something crazy in their day and just to show love towards that person.

I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything.

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.

I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.

Let me think about the people I care about.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.

Even if you become sympathetic for somebody who has done something terrible, I don't think that necessarily makes what they did look cool.

We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

She writes that one of the moments that she felt most useful was when her mother had a headache, and she would stroke her head and rub her forehead. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt's entire life was dedicated to two things: (one) making it better for all people, people in trouble and in need, like her family.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.