Quotes About Support

How did you do it, Benji? How did you survive all that way alone? I was never alone, the man said

She is my wife—because ever since they were children she was like the sky to him, forever around.

and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all.

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

Those supporters pay dollars but make us pay with blood.

She slips her arm around my shoulders and cradles my head against her breast. We breathe together. Slowly. Time passes, flowing, a long, less and less painful sigh. And I shut my eyes. Pain becomes only physical again. Fear recedes. Anger flickers for a moment longer, gas in the pipes after the stove has been turned off. She says, "I'll take care of you." And I feel gratitude and happiness rise up inside me: old friends, long-forgotten and yet much missed.

They were on a first-name basis now, united in female solidarity after a twenty-minute conversation about cats. How women cemented alliances over less than nothing impressed him anew.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.

Build a little community of those you love and who love you

His propositions are nothing but expressions of personal opinion unless they are supported by reasons.

Pray together and you will stay together. Scientific prayer solves all problems.

His Holiness told us how he saw the Basilica of St. John Lateran falling, and how a poor beggar had rushed forward to support the falling church with his shoulder. Each of you, my brothers, is that poor beggar. No sword is placed upon your shoulders like a man being knighted, but the pillars of the church itself rest on your shoulders. And that is what we are now sent to do.

Like a relay race with a long overlap in which the baton is passed—lasting at least eighteen years and often longer—our job as parents is to position our children to run their solo laps effectively.

There's no such thing as neutrality. The people who use that label are people who unknowingly, for the most part, are dedicated to the support of the status quo.

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship; for a female, communication and conversation. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. The fourth basic need of a male is domestic support; for a female, financial support. The fifth basic need of a male is admiration and respect; for a woman, family commitment.

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

I think that people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore.

town to help raise money for a scholarship

Keep saying Dear God, dear God. There may still be suffering - but keep touching those people, Lucia, and He won't let you suffer alone.

If you can't tell your own family how you feel, then what's the point in having one? I shook my head. I've been here before with 'family.' I just thought this one was different.