Lillie Langtry Quotes

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

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

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

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

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

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.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

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

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

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

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.