Barbara Walters Quotes

I always seek the time to talk to people who are reaching out for help because sometimes you just need that one person to tell you everything is going to be OK.

It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

Give now. Somewhere, someone feels crappy. You can help.

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

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.

All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get over it' - they just really have no idea. You have to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're doing the best they can to get through it.

I've been privileged to be able to be a part of some of my girlfriends' lives at their breaking points.

If someone is having a bad day, I find you can change it pretty quick by just showing that you care.

I just want to be Kevin Abstract and exist and help as many people as possible who are struggling with whatever they're struggling with.

In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world