Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

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 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.

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 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.

I know that for me, whenever I'm in a situation where there's death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that.

You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the women in my life have been much better than the men.

I love to take care of people, which is why I went to nursing school.

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

Being a woman it's my responsibility to be with needy people.

I'm a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.

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

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.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

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.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

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.

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

I love helping people.