Norman Jewison Quotes

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Compassion is a verb.

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

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.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Helping begins with listening.

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

You were supposed to empathize with your friend's problem, but they were, after all, your friend's problems.

We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.

To be human is to catch the falling person.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.