Connie Sellecca Quotes

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

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

'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

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

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

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.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

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.

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.

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

I think I felt very alone for a lot of my life, but once I was able to share my story more and more, and people wouldn't say, 'Hey, I felt sorry for you,' but, 'I get it, and I understand you,' it kind of encouraged me to tell it more. I just don't want people to feel alone.

What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

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.'

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

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

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

But when they needed love or help or had a problem of any kind, they could always go to Roselle because she was always there for them. That was not always the case with me.

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

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.