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Quotes About Support

I'd change you bandages for you, but you don't have any and that's a big issue here.
~ Douglas Coupland
But that's what family members are for. We crave them and need them not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about but because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
~ Douglas Coupland
All the great pillars of my life are crumbling. I must constantly remind myself that I am not the only grieving person in the world. And yet, the loss of Reba is a terrible cross to bear and I do not think I have the strength for it.
~ Douglas Preston
R.'s chemotherapy is going better than expected. Total loss of hair, though. We are praying together for the first time since the early part of our marriage, and I am more filled with love for her than ever. She seems so broken and helpless; but God's love will give her and both of us strength.
~ Douglas Preston
So, after half a million, what did the chimps say?" Well, not much, when you really analyze it. That wasn't the point, for God's sake! And the scientists who supported us were afraid to object. They didn't want to attract Proxmire's attention. Cowards, every one.
~ Douglas Preston
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
~ Adrienne Rich
I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
~ Adrienne Rich
No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.
~ Adrienne Rich
There is no greater pleasure than winning a competition with one's sister and no greater sorrow than to see her suffer because of it.
~ Adrienne Sharp
No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
~ Aelred of Rievaulx
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
~ Aeschylus
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
~ Aeschylus
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
~ Aeschylus
Give heed, give heed and give your sympathy To one who suffers; sorrow roaming wide Impartial stops and stays awhile with me, To tarry later seated close by thee.
~ Aeschylus
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
~ Aeschylus
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
~ Aeschylus
God always strives together with those who strive.
~ Aeschylus
PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers
~ Aeschylus
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~ Aeschylus
We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.
~ Aesop
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends
~ Aesop
Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.
~ Aesop
Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends
~ African Proverb
You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.
~ Agatha Christie