Quotes About Support

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

We pass people in the street and ignore them when they're clearly suffering. It makes you wish we could all feel when someone needs something.

Disabled people are deliberately ignored because disabled people need more care and more money.

When you're focused on your enemy, then you are ignoring your allies.

Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.

The more kids that we can meet or kids that are terminally ill, we try to do it because it's really important, and you can see the hope in their eyes and in their families and their parents.

I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.

People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.

Within my first year of moving abroad living on my own, my sister got ill - she got cancer - and at the same time, my mum got cancer, and she passed away. I think at that time it was a hard challenge for me to deal with it, but in a way, I have always taken strength out of anything that has come at me.

When I admitted to myself I was ill, it was tough to accept. I didn't want my family to worry about me.

If I ever feel like I need to see someone to help me adjust to whatever life situation I'm seeing, I'll go. You're sick. When you're physically ill, you go to the doctor. It's the same thing about your mental. If you feel you're starting to get sick, you go see someone who can help you.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

In any household, whenever you are a family that's going through something tough - whether it's an illness or whatever the case may be, families tend to close their doors and become more private.

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.

Aim high and don't sell yourself short. Know that you're capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things - depression, body image or whatever else - so know that it's not just you. You're not alone.

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

Imagine growing up never feeling loved by your family - the most basic of human needs.

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

I was not expecting Linda Hamilton to be there auditioning with me. I never would've imagined that. I didn't recognize her. We went into a room with four people, and the scene was really emotional. She held my hand and hugged me. She was so loving.

I have a great life, amazing family and friends, so it's easy for people to be like, 'What have you got to be sad about?' But it's not that; it's a chemical imbalance in your brain that sometimes needs to be treated.