Regina Brett Quotes

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

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

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.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

I believe in people, especially suffering people.

In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

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

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

The reality is that we communicate with every part of our being, and there are times when we must use it all. When someone needs us, he or she needs all of us. There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

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

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.

When we make the effort for each other, it makes the difference.

You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.