Alysia Reiner Quotes

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

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

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

We pass people in the street and ignore them when they're clearly suffering. It makes you wish we could all feel when someone needs something.

Your experiences, everything you've gone through, good or bad, it's not for you - it's for helping somebody else. It's to relate to somebody else in need.

The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

I think being compassionate of each other's lives and issues is nonnegotiable when it comes to friendships. We're all going through different stages and issues, and as I get older, I'm trying to lean into that.

I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.

When you're all alone, love one another.

Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

You don't have to be one of the Elders. You don't have to be well known. You just have to be determined to care about people. That's all it takes.

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

Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only a little thought is necessary. There is no greater religion than love. God is love; and the best form of love is to be conscientious regarding the feelings of those with whom we come in contact in everyday life.

Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

Let's be the people who look at the hurting until we hurt with them. No hurrying past, turning away, or shifting of eyes. No pretending or glossing over. Let's look at the face until we see the person.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.