Quotes About Support

Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

No one is exempt from grief.

Now we'd help her if we could. We can't. So we're helping you. That's all that most of us who are not Tsars or witches can manage to do.

My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.

Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel, and he cried along with Liir.

You'll be all right,' Elphaba said, 'now you're a seasoned traveler. This is just the return leg of a voyage you already know.' She put her face against Glinda's and kissed her. 'Hold out, if you can,' she murmured, and kissed her again. 'Hold out, my sweet.

Everybody's on your side until they need something from you.

I don't require all your attention but I do need some of it. (Wicked)

Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you. —SENECA, Letters from a Stoic

studies show that your happiness is often boosted more by providing

to other people than from receiving support yourself. I certainly get more satisfaction out of thinking about good deeds I've done for other people than I do from thinking about good deeds that others have done for me.

Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship." You

Also, it was fun just being part of a new group. Group membership makes people feel closer and brings a significant boost in personal confidence and happiness.

Then I wonder if some people need a coach more than a therapist," I said, thinking of Obligers.

sometimes, when people are willing to go with the flow on a collaborative team project, they view my need to ask questions as not showing team spirit

For this reason, it's often worthwhile to invest in systems of accountability. A chief benefit of fitness trainers, financial planners, life coaches, executive coaches, personal organizers, and nutritionists, in addition to their expertise, is the accountability they provide. For Obligers, most of all, this kind of external accountability is absolutely essential.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

But it doesn't matter what we think a person (or ourselves) "should be able to" do—what matters is only what works for each individual. To help people change their habits or behavior, we should help get them what they need to succeed, whether that's more clarity, more information, more outer accountability, or more choices.

Learning that men and women both turn to women for understanding showed me that Jamie wasn't ignoring me out of lack of interest or affection; he just wasn't good at giving that kind of support. Jamie wasn't going to have a long discussion about whether

Studies show that if you have five or more friends with whom to discuss an important matter, you're far more likely to describe yourself as "very happy.

It's a very unsettling and interesting exercise to think about the people in my life and to imagine myself in a minor, supporting role. How do I fit into their fates? Am I helping?

But if someone really cared, well they'd take the time to spare, a moment to try and understand, another one's despair