Elizabeth Rodriguez Quotes

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, because my backpack has every kind of medicine in it.

I like to take care of people, I love looking after my friends and stuff.

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.

We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.

Taking care of the people who take care of you - that's how I was raised and how I like to do things.

When you're dealing with a sick person, you're not important at all. You're just a nobody.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

It could have been me. And just the hope and prayers that, you know, if, if the shoes were switched, that you know, Laci would do the same thing for me.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

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.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.