Quotes About Support

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man's, I mean.

We can't all be heros because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Držite se podalje od ljudi koji žele omalovažiti vaše ambicije. Sitne duše to rade svo vreme, a samo zaista veliki ljudi ulivaju vam ose?aj da i vi možete postati veliki

A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked.

People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

to have company in misery seemed something to be grateful for.

Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.

I took up my knife and fork and--- well, I simply held them, and kept still; for the boy had inclined his head and was saying a silent grace. A thousand hallowed memories of home and my childhood poured in upon me, and I sigh to think how far I had drifted from religion and its balm for hurt minds, its comfort and solace and support.

Becky cried, and Tom tried to think of some way of comforting her, but all his encouragements were grown threadbare with use, and sounded like sarcasms.

Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!

When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?" At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?" I wish I knew.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick. At my best I have islands of being sick. At my worst I had islands of being well. Except for a reluctance to give up on myself there isn't anything I can claim credit for that helped me recover from my breaks. Even that doesn't count. You either have or don't have a reluctance to give up on yourself. It helps a lot if others don't give up on you. Had

The place I felt most welcome and comfortable was AA meetings, even though there was a sticky-sweet optimism there I found insufferable.

The cost of not caring for the mentally ill dwarfs the cost of caring.

Imagine what effect it would have on you if someone stood behind you all day telling you how useless you were when you were trying desperately to cope with a difficult experience. Now imagine how much worse it would be if the criticism and harsh judgment came from inside your own mind.

At least when you're drunk, Tom adds, quickly wiping the wet from his face. You've always got the floor for your best friend. Know why? It's always there for you, Navidson answers, his own cheeks suddenly flushing with emotion as he helps his weaving brother to the kitchen. That's right, Tom whispers. Just like you.

Not only had Navidson carried Karen out of that house, he had picked her up a hundred times over the course of eleven years and carried her fear, her torment, and her distance.