Quotes About Support

They were very, very kind to each other and, in my discombobulated state, this was soothing.

So when you're friends with someone that long they're in your corner.

Wasn't this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

Love is to people what water is to plants.

In the holy relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person.

THE UNIVERSE IS set up to work on your behalf.

Sometimes, in fact, it was the people who loved us the most who felt it was their responsibility to train us to struggle.

Partners are meant to have a priestly role in each other's lives. They are meant to help each other access the highest parts within themselves.

Nadie llega a una relación ya sanado, ya perfecto. En una relación sagrada, se entiende que todos estamos heridos pero que todos estamos allí para sanar juntos.*

We must relinquish the paradigm of men as power with women as support and instead embrace the image of both men and women as powers, with each supporting the other. Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.

The key, very simply, is other people.

Entre más nos acerquemos a Dios, más nos aproximaremos a nuestro talento natural de proteger a nuestros hermanos.* Entre más alineados estemos con el amor de Dios, podremos ser amigos más sinceros. Sabremos cómo estar allí, cómo decir la palabra correcta, cómo dar un consejo a las personas que amamos.

Her emergence from that institution and rebirth as an effective and innovative mental health worker is not simply a miracle. Her dedication to self-healing, her persistent attempts at creating a helpful environment, and her willingness to receiver support from those around her, reveal her recovery as the outcome of careful and courageous self-examination and hard work. (xii)

Later on, I see how often therapists keep patients coming to them, not so much for the benefit of the patients but to satisfy the therapists' need to help - and because of their own inability to recognize the clients' actual independence. (148)

his [Mark Scrutton's] was the intelligent and selfless tenderness that is ever seeking to promote the comfort and well-being of the beloved.

Very few of us lack superficial faults and we must rely on each other's kindness to overlook them.

He had been, he thought, her friend, when in fact he had always been her entire world. Inside

People don't necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Why do I love the thought of you old? That first twinge of arthiritis in your knee is a thing I imagine with all the tenderness I felt when you showed me your loose tooth. I wish I could help you carry the weight of many years. But the Lord will have that fatherly satisfaction.

That's what the family is for,' he said. 'Calvin says it is the Providence of God that we look after those nearest to us. So it is the will of God that we help our brothers, and it is equally the will of God that we accept their help and receive the blessing of it. As if it came from the Lord Himself. Which it does. So I want you boys to promise me that you will help each other.