Amber Frey Quotes

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I believe in people, especially suffering people.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.

I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.