Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

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

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

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

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

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

I want everyone to know there is always someone there for you.

When someone you love is in pain, you want to do anything to comfort them.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

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

He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans.

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're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

Sympathy butters no parsnips.

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.

I can use all the hugs I can get.

Kindness will always make things feel better, more stable.

Social support is everything.

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.'