Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

You always feel for your fellow players when they are going through tough times, losing and things like that.

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

It is important that friends should understand each other in their difficult hours.

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

One thing that we can do for each other is support each other. At one point or another, we all go through trials and tribulations, so giving your time is one way to help.

It would be good to rely on the man during my most tired moments. The best is if he will listen to my stories when I am stressed.

For some reason, I like seeing people feel emotional.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.