Quotes About Support

Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them

I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father.

Maybe with Sara's accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached to pull you out didn't have to be your own.

Maybe that's what being a mother was—not so much the act of giving birth, but the sense of understanding and love born from the need to protect.

Apparently, a good friend helps you bury a body. A best friend brings their own shovel and doesn't ask questions.

Throughout our lives we are all falling. Falling down, falling out, falling away. Falling in love. The trick is finding someone to catch us. And sometimes we surprise ourselves by finding out that person is us.

Survival is like a stone wall, and kindness is a door.

Sharing the good and bad times with a lifelong friend made the business of living a lot more bearable.

It's easy to be kind and giving and loyal when you have everything. But the mark of a true friend is when everything is taken away and you're still kind, giving, and loyal." "Margaret's going through a

Who will sit on the porch with him then?

asking for help doesn't mean you're weak. It means you're strong enough to know you can't handle it all on your own.

And sometimes home is where one finds it, in the heart of another person who will always believe you are worthy of love.

Life's journey doesn't mean much without friends who love you to come along for the ride.

To reach your children, Ruth thought, you have to take an interest in whatever is important to them...

It is a father's job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved.

sometimes, your world turns upside down, and you need somebody to show you how to walk on your hands before you can find your feet again.

Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right.

For example, parent support could be most important in the early grades, when children's academic self-image is just beginning to coalesce, but over time, as children become more self-directive, the immediate influence of parent support might wane.

Other resources located within the family also weigh on children's development. In figure 7.1, they are represented by parents' psychological support for their children's schooling, which preliminary analyses identified to be the key component of functional social capital as measured here.

By contrast, lower-SES children labor under the burden of cumulative disadvantage imposed by their location in the SES hierarchy. Their parents want them to succeed in school and after, but most lack the means to help them do so.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.