William P. Leahy Quotes

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

We need to treat the victims of this catastrophe as if they were members of our own family.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

We all have that capacity to reach out to people we don't even know and care about them ...

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

When someone you love is in pain, you want to do anything to comfort them.

My heart goes out to Lindsay Lohan.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.

Kindness will always make things feel better, more stable.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers, and of course, to their families.