Quotes About Support

We live in the shelter of each other." —Celtic saying

Bowlby talked about "effective dependency" and how being able, from "the cradle to the grave," to turn to others for emotional support is a sign and source of strength.

When we feel generally secure, that is, we are comfortable with closeness and confident about depending on loved ones, we are better at seeking support — and better at giving it.

Researchers say that marital distress raises the risk for depression tenfold!

Hundreds of studies now show that positive loving connections with others protect us from stress and help us cope better with life's challenges and traumas.

He had fought for me when i needed it.And I had to fight for him when he couldn't fight for himself.Perhaps that was the meaning of friendship.Perhaps the only true one.

If you just stick your big toe in the water when it comes to helping someone else, you'll get one big toe's worth of life change.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.

I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

She was wet with my crying. Up around her collar the cotton of her dress was plastered to her skin. I could see her darkness shining through the wet places. She was like a sponge, absorbing what I couldn't hold anymore.

There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.

And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.

Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.

She didn't say, Come on now, stop your crying, everything's going to be okay, which is the automatic thing people say when they want you to shut up. She said, 'It hurts, I know it does. Let it out. Just let it out.' So I did. With my mouth pressed against her dress, it seemed like I drew up my whole lifeload of pain and hurled it into her breast, heaved it with the force of my mouth, and she didn't flinch.

The only thing I wanted was for her to understand. Somebody to let out a big sigh and say, You poor thing, I know how you feel. Given a choice, I preferred someone to understand my situation, even though she was helpless to fix it, rather than the other way around. But that's just me. Right

Ich hatte schon oft gehoert wie Augusta gesagt hatte: Wenn du etwas vom jemanden brauchst dann bau dem anderen eine Bruecke auf der ihr euch begegnen koennt.

I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants – for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

I think every pain in this world wants to be witnessed

it's something everybody wants—for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

fix it. But I know my impulse to tear open the closed, secret place in my daughter comes from a need to stave off my own fear. When is the impulse to help an adult child a wise intervention

Nina was one wing, I was another--Sarah Grimke