Quotes About Support

Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.

I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on.

When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken," I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on.

You know, my mother used to say, a long time ago, whenever there would be any really---catastrophe that was in the movies or on the air, she would say, 'Always look for the helpers. There will always be helpers, just on the sidelines.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

Life is for service.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

As I ponder my pilgrim's progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn't make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn't the one driving.

He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.

Yessir. A crutch, like one-legged men always have.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

When he learned from home that "all the nuns and priests along the Atlantic coast" were "putting in a lot of praying time" on his behalf, Jack was comforted but said he hoped "it won't be taken as a sign of lack of confidence in you all or the Church if I continue to duck.

Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

That's the beauty about love. It's not about give-and-take - it's about feeling safe in one's needs - wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.

You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.