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Quotes About Support

There should be a thirteenth commandment: Thou shall not abandon those who love you.
~ Sidney Sheldon
I couldn't understand why he had such an attitude. Most teachers did their best to help hockey players because most of the players wanted education and hockey, and doing both was tough without support from the teachers. Anyway, my first two years in junior hockey had shown me there were better things to be afraid of than someone like this, attitude or not.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
That's one of the good things about Coach Price. He doesn't expect us to be silent robots. As long as we do what he tells us, we can kid around and he'll kid back.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
~ Sigmund Freud
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
~ Sigmund Freud
Siempre se podrá vincular amorosamente entre sí a mayor número de hombres, con la condición de que sobren otros en quienes descargar los golpes.
~ Sigmund Freud
Niemals sind wir ungeschützter gegen das Leiden, als wenn wir Lieben. Niemals hilfloser unglücklich, als wenn wir das geliebte Objekt oder seine Liebe verloren haben.
~ Sigmund Freud
Be kind, because everyone you meet is going through a struggle.
~ Sigrid Nunez
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?" —Simone Weil
~ Sigrid Nunez
Dogs are the best mourners in the world, as everyone knows. Joy Williams.)
~ Sigrid Nunez
And I see you still don't realize, no matter how many times you've witnessed it, that you can't always manage alone everything that you've taken on. But I will help you to undertake this burden.
~ Sigrid Undset
He felt as if the roots of his own life were intertwined with those of his brothers and sisters, somewhere deep down in the dark earth. Every blow that struck, every injury that ate away at the marrow of one of them was felt by all.
~ Sigrid Undset
as she was when they first met: gentle and seemly, intelligent enough that a man would gladly seek her counsel even on important matters, a bit headstrong about petty things, but otherwise amenable, accustomed as she was to accepting from her father's hands guidance and support and protection.
~ Sigrid Undset
Just as we are conceived and born from the lives of others, we must sustain our daily lives with what we receive from others. And we must pay for it by giving of ourselves every single day.
~ Sigrid Undset
But never had she felt so clearly as in this hour that it was on her father and mother all the life of this home had rested. What ever hidden troubles they might have had to struggle with, warmth and help, peace and safety had flowed out from them to all that lived about them.
~ Sigrid Undset
The internet needs as many good dogs and books as it can get right now.
~ Silas House
No," Jude agreed softly, "but we can empathize. Anyone who's been in a relationship where one partner blames the other for their own inadequacies knows the kind of pain involved. Strange how it keeps happening. There are enough unpleasant people out there in the world to cut you down to size. What everyone needs at home is someone to support and bolster them.
~ Simon Brett
But, goodness me, poor Theresa! What a dreadful thing to happen in Smithy's Loam!' 'Or anywhere,' Mrs Pargeter observed mildly.
~ Simon Brett
He kept telling James and me how proud he was of us. I reminded Dad how he had spotted the advert in the newspaper that kick-started my little journey. I made sure he knew that without his encouragement I would probably never have made anything of my life. I knew and I know he always loved me.
~ Simon Reeve
Les livres que j'aimais devinrent une Bible où je puisais des conseils et des secours.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The Social Security's medical consultants support the interest not of the victims but of the organization.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I haven't abandoned you, my little ally, my heart. I kiss you with all my soul.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I knew that no harm could ever come to me from him - unless he were to die before I died. Happiness is a rarer vocation than people suppose. I hoped I might help her to stop wasting her resources on barren preoccupations such as boredom or guilt...
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Souvent, quand les malades souffraient un long martyre, je m'étais indignée de l'inertie de leurs proches. [...] Je me demandais comment on s'arrange pour survivre quand quelqu'un de cher vous a crié en vain : Pitié !
~ Simone de Beauvoir