Elizabeth Berg Quotes

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

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.

Everyone loves to be loved.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I don't want my guy to buy me cars, villas or diamonds. I can do all that. I don't want any PDA, either. But my guy should be very sensitive to my pains and sorrows and should try to make me happy because I'd do all that for him. Sadly, most of the men that I have met in the past couple of years are too self-obsessed.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

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.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.