Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they're looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly. "You don't even know-" "I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.

In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

You never help anyone by being a sounding board for their problems or complaints.

Even bullies need love.

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it the most.

What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.