Quotes About Support

Don't pray for us. Pray with us.

In short, a tough fugitive slave law was absolutely essential to the continued viability of slavery. It was enacted only with overwhelming support from the Democratic Party.82

The people had to admire and respect the army before they could help it.

Washington paid for the education of his twenty-two nieces and nephews.

There's lots of kinds of chains...You can't see most of them, the ones that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak...That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

I like fixing things," he said as he worked. "The world is always breaking, here and there, this way and that. Fix a bit of it, and I feel like I'm helping.

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

Your connectedness to other people is so key to buffering any current stressor—and to healing from past trauma. Being with people who are present, supportive, and nurturing. Belonging.

belonging and being loved are core to the human experience. We are a social species; we are meant to be in community—emotionally, socially, and physically interconnected with others.

You can't give what you don't have.

Connectedness regulates and rewards us.

The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation. I

Social networking sites can link us to distant relatives and friends with whom we might otherwise lose touch. These contacts and the emotions they engage are real. And when online social networks or games add to face-to-face relationships—rather than substitute for them—they can improve our relatedness and compassion.

Social connection builds resilience, and resilience helps create post-traumatic wisdom, and that wisdom leads to hope. Hope for you and hope for others witnessing and participating in your healing, hope for your community.

Connectedness counters the pull of addictive behaviors. It is the key.

One of the few things I knew for sure by then about traumatized children was that they need predictability, routine, a sense of control and stable relationships with supportive people.

Oprah: She needs people to step up—people who support her, give her some breaks, step in and do some of those things with her children. We're not meant to be isolated and alone. We're actually meant to work together. So when a single mom is living on a limited income, trying to manage four children, trying to be mother and father, and she feels overwhelmed or feels like it's impossible to do it all—it's because it is impossible.

You're not meant to raise children isolated and alone.

This is one of the central problems in our society; we have too many parents caring for children with inadequate supports.

therapy without "connectedness" is not very effective.

There is a direct relationship between a person's degree of social isolation and their risk for physical and mental health problems.

what works best is anything that increases the quality and number of relationships in the child's life.

The most traumatic aspects of all disasters involve the shattering of human connections.