Quotes About Support

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.

To the joy and the life in the eyes of my friend, I will fight all those who deem him their enemy.

To grieve is a gift best shared. As a song is shared.

Because true friends knew when to keep silent, to give all the patience needed.

Be assured, Torvald, Kruppe's friend, that "bad" is never as bad as bad might be, even when it's very bad indeed.

Would it be enough? He did not know, but it had to be, for without friends there was nothing, no-one.

No soul deserved to stand alone

Kinship is more important than you might think. Blood-bound lives are the web that carries each of us; they make up that which a life climbs, from newborn to child, then child to adulthood. Without such life-forces, one withers and dies.

But I am tired of sympathy. Of feeling it, at least. I'd welcome receiving it, if only to salve all this self-pity.

If she was a friend, you will miss her company, and that is the true source of your grief—your sorrow is for yourself.

His friend waited, saying nothing – and Kalam knew that he wouldn't, because they'd been through it all together. Because true friends knew when to keep silent, to give all the patience needed.

that's what I love about you," he said. "You help the mantle of senility rest so gently.

Steven F. Havill

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.

There's nothing more infuriating than someone who wants to help.

Misery isn't a bloody competition. Joe

I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life.

None of us can know what it's like for someone else. It's what makes us individuals. We each have our own pain, our own mistakes. But we can reach out toward each other, help each other. That's what makes us human.

Love isn't supposed to be something that needs to be handled; it's supposed to be the thing that helps you handle everything else.

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

If you're told what you should be but not helped to become it, you don't get there. And it makes you ashamed for failing to. When a person you depend on keeps telling you that it's time to 'move on,' 'to grow up,' it makes you feel that who you are now is inadequate or uninteresting.