Quotes About Support

You may be sorry, but I'm proud of you." She looked up and saw her father beaming at her. "What?" "I said I'm proud of you.

the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right—

Jem, she's old and ill. You can't hold her responsible for what she says and does.

That's the one thing about here, the South, you've missed. You'd be amazed if you knew how many people are on your side, if side's the right word. You're no special case. The woods are full of people like you, but we need more of you.

Il m'arrive de trouver que je suis un très mauvais père, mais ils n'ont que moi. Jem regarde d'abord comment je me comporte avant de regarder quelqu'un d'autre. J'ai essayé de vivre de façon à pouvoir soutenir son regard...

draugams tav?s reikia, kai jie klysta, o ne tada, kai b?na teis?s...

Miss Maudie puzzled me. With most of her possessions gone and her beloved yard a shambles, she still took a lively and cordial interest in Jem's and my affairs.

Grandma says all men should learn to cook, that men oughta be careful with their wives and wait on 'em when they don't feel good.' said my cousin.

We diminish people when we don't allow them to help us, or when we act like we don't need anything from them and they have nothing to offer us. We also diminish them when we allow them to go on and on, even after we've exceeded our capacity to pay attention.

groups of people gathered around an issue for which they care deeply will find the way–provided they had the (safe) space in which to explore.

it's an all-hands-on-deck affair.' 'And he wants my hand on his deck.' 'He does indeed.

The doctrines of egalitarianism and of sufficiency are logically independent: considerations that support the one cannot be presumed to provide support also for the other.

Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. I know how you feel, he finally says. But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

I'm just sad. You were so nice to me when I was having my problems, but now that you're having yours, it seems there's not a thing I can do for you. You're all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

Toru: What happens when people open their hearts? Reiko: They get better.

But if I'm with you, I'm not afraid.