Quotes About Support

I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

Loyalty ruled this woman's soul, but loyalty needs a partner.

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories that I'm going to hear. On you, if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh.

Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you." He squeezed my hand gently. I squeezed back harder. And like that carnival contest where you bang a hammer and watch the disk rise up the pole, I could almost see my body heat rise up Morrie's chest and neck into his cheeks and eyes. He smiled.

Survive this voyage. And once you do, find another soul in despair.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your 'spiritual security'—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame." He shot me a look. "Not work," he added.

Her divorced friends had made a pact not to leave each other alone on nights when loneliness had extra strength.

Morrie likes the nickname. Coach, he says. All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now.

Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you." He

He was making sure I absorbed this point, without embarrassing me by asking. It was part of what made him a good teacher.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "But there's the secret: in between, we need others as well.

Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. "And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place.

Remember this, Annie. When we build, we build on the shoulders of those who came before us. And when we fall apart, those who came before us help put us back together.

You know what really gives you satisfaction?" What? "Offering others what you have to give.

And it's so true. Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. It's become quite clear to me as I've been sick. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish.

Do not stop your lives," he told them. "Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.

what I call your 'spiritual security'—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that.

Little wonder that when they sat with him, there was a waterfall of affection, lots of kisses and jokes and crouching by the side of the bed, holding hands.

He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their problems - the way they had always.. because Morrie had always been a wonderful listener.

Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place. Love each other or die. -Morrie Schwartz