Quotes About Support

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

We don't accomplish anything in the world alone and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry off one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that create something.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

A community ceases to be so once the members of it become less than resolute in their support of each other. Many of

All of these show us the web of relationships that narrative forms, a web that supports and sustains us.

call nine-one-one, or something.

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

And on bad days when you feel like you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, with no earth beneath you to sink your roots in, and no breeze to push your life forward, reach out to all those who ever gave you love, and believe with the faith of a child.

I wouldn't have made it back if it weren't for you, Earwig. I just kept telling myself, every day, every hour, that I had to live through it to come home for you.

Part of dealing with the sense of being cut off - for both the one dying and the one bereaved - is acknowledging that though a vital part of life has changed dramatically, all relationships (with friends, even with you, perhaps) have not.

Some days, she was pain incarnate. She would suffer all day and he would try to cheer her up and fail, and he felt like an irrelevant gnat.

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers?

What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers?"---Connecting

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

We can help people a great deal by thinking about them positively and developing metta towards them. And sometimes we can help people just by keeping out of their way – or rather by not getting in their way. Sometimes people need space, and we help them most by giving it to them, or at least not taking it from them.

As my friend, if you declare it, I will write it down because when you are at your lowest, this will be a roadmap to finding yourself again.

Build a circle of friends who are willing to live by the vows of for better or worse.

Not everyone can handle your fragile.

People who want you in their lives, respect you whether you are grapes or fine wine.

These people are called the "invisible second patients.