Quotes About Support

If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born. No matter how hard they try, no matter how pure their intentions... Everything will go wrong. And that's when the gawkers show up. From far and wide they come to inspect the hapless new parents. The nice ones bring food.

You and me little buddy...adrift in an ocean of estrogen

If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by bricking hopelessly intertwined with each other.

If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other. The happiest families I ever met were all frayed... but they were also tighter than a hangman's noose.

The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.

We both instinctively knew never to share weakness until we understood it. 'Share only strength' was an unspoken motto between us.

Consolation is about sharing loneliness and making it bearable.

We're all scared. Might as well be scared together.

People do not need saving. People need love, support, and encouragement that they can withstand any trials and will always come out stronger, wiser, and more compassionate. I cannot shelter anyone from the storms of life, or they will never grow, learn, and expand.

churches would aim to take people at every age and ability level and help them become the most loving version of themselves possible. They would help people face the challenges of life--challenges that could make them bitter, self-absorbed, callous, or hateful--with openness, courage, and generosity. (p. 54)

The best work of all is when you are achieving your own goals by helping others to achieve theirs.

Um alles, was das Leben lebenswert macht, zu erreichen, brauchen Sie die Hilfe und Unterstützung von zahlreichen Menschen. Daher sind Ihre zwischenmenschlichen Fähigkeiten besonders wichtig und mehr wert als alles andere. Vielleicht

It is also important to give and receive within a team. Too often, the corporate world forces individuals to strive and show their personal strengths. However, accepting help from others and crediting them for it is not a sign of weakness. It takes a stronger person to take help than not to take help.

Sometimes just showing up for someone else is good enough. I

With regard to my mother, it felt like it was never enough. Nothing I said or did seemed correct or could make her stop getting drunk or feel deeper happiness. I felt helpless. Why wasn't I enough to help her stop drinking?

My unhappiness was rooted in my mother's inability to stop drinking.

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that "unless you love yourself, no one else will love you."…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

the most powerful form of reward is relational. Positive interactions with people are rewarding and regulating. Without connection to people who care for you, spend time with you, and support you, it is almost impossible to step away from any form of unhealthy reward and regulation.

The Starrs came up with a modified three questions for their family meeting. 1. What things went well in our family this week? 2. What things could we improve in our family? 3. What things will you commit to working on this week?

A meta-analysis of sixty-six studies completed in 1992 found that mothers who have more support from grandmothers have less stress and more well-adjusted children. The more involved the grandmothers are, the more involved dads are, too.

Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be in a community, to be in relationship with other organisms.

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love