Quotes About Support

together." "Barone could have been

took his son's hands in

Friendship's a fine thing but in the end we all walk alone.

His happiness was your happiness. That takes love, and it takes courage. It's what makes the two of you good together." I raised my glass. "It's a lesson we could all stand to learn. It's what I'm striving for, and I thank you both for showing me a path. To my brother the hustler, and the woman who is his equal. Your happiness is ours. I wish you a lifetime supply of it, getting better every day. Cheers.

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Just because others have it worse doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence.

Family. It's an incurable disease.

Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality.

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and [we] should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

When you're dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you're not alone

It was harder to let yourself sink if someone else needed you to be their rock.

He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. ~ FDR

We need to change our perception of the word volunteer. We can't see volunteer as a verb. We aren't looking for someone "to volunteer.

Today, about a quarter of poor families with children are covered by TANF, for example, down from about 70 percent twenty years ago.

social connectedness can go a long way toward alleviating the misery caused by a financial crisis.

The truest form of wealth is social, not material.

Leider and Webber stress that big transitions aren't DIY projects and that, as Webber told me, isolation kills. "It's pretty lonesome inside your own head," Webber said, when I spoke with him about the project. "Everybody's life is an experiment of one, but nobody should have to go it alone.

away from ambition and toward connection.

The fact that I have these people whom I'm emotionally and spiritually accountable to really helps prevent that. I tell them what's going on in my life, and they tell me, and I feel like

she lived from fellowship to fellowship,

We overcame because the One God fought on our behalf—the God who

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

What Jacob learned – and what we learn, hearing his story – is that love is not enough. We must also heed those who feel unloved.