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Quotes About Support

I turned away and folded my arms on the table and put my head down on them and sobbed. When I lifted my head again, blotchy and tearstained, he was there, sitting near me, looking out of the window, his face bleak. His hands were folded in his lap, the fingers laced, as though he had held himself back from reaching out to touch me. He had laid a handkerchief on the table before me.
~ Naomi Novik
him every word of praise he has earned from you and never received; you will tell him he has been brave, and loyal, and a better partner than you have deserved.
~ Naomi Novik
You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away.
~ Naomi Novik
I'll come with you," Kasia said, and linked her arm in mine to support me: she could tell I needed the help, without a word said.
~ Naomi Novik
Ik wilde niet alleen dat zij míj hielpen om te overleven. Ik wilde dat zíj overleefden.
~ Naomi Novik
There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away. And if there has been food in my house for you, then I am glad, glad with all my heart. I hope there will always be.
~ Naomi Novik
We will take this word in our arms. It will be small and breathing. We will not wish to scare it. Pressing lips to the edge of each syllable. Nothing else will save us now. The word "together" wants to live in every house.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
For any one woman to outgrow the myth, she needs the support of many women. The toughest but most necessary change will come not from men or from the media, but from women, in the way we see and behave toward other women
~ Naomi Wolf
And I wondered why there were no studies of communities that did not "lock down" — communities in which people chose their own levels of risk while providing support to those who wished to "isolate" or who wanted to protect their own, more vulnerable immune systems while others made different choices. I wondered why no one wanted to know what was becoming of them.
~ Naomi Wolf
Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule.
~ Napoleon Hill
1. A DEFINITE PURPOSE BACKED BY BURNING DESIRE FOR ITS FULFILLMENT. 2. A DEFINITE PLAN, EXPRESSED IN CONTINUOUS ACTION. 3. A MIND CLOSED TIGHTLY AGAINST ALL NEGATIVE AND DISCOURAGING INFLUENCES, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends and acquaintances. 4. A FRIENDLY ALLIANCE WITH ONE OR MORE PERSONS WHO WILL ENCOURAGE ONE TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH BOTH PLAN AND PURPOSE. These
~ Napoleon Hill
During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.
~ Napoleon Hill
It is a very old saying that "a man's wife may either make him or break him," but the reason is not always understood. The "making" and "breaking" is the result of the wife's understanding, or lack of understanding, of the emotions of love, sex, and romance.
~ Napoleon Hill
A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches. If you bring them out into the light, they get scared and leave.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches," he said in the joking tone he used when he wanted to say something serious. "If you bring them out into the light, they get scared and leave.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Gracias por ser el mejor amigo que nunca he tenido.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Quasi tutto è possibile quando si ha un vero amico.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
En la juventud, el talento, el genio, si se deja sin atender, se tuerce y se come al que lo posee. Hay que ponerle cauce. Apoyo.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tu madre no está sola, Daniel. Está con Dios. Y con nosotros, aunque no podamos verla.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I've been thinking about what you said the other day, about finding a woman for me," said Fermín Romero de Torres.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
However many sorrows you drag along with you, you'll only have walked a few steps before bumping into someone who will remind you that there's always another person with a far worse set of cards than yours in the game of life.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Um bom amigo disse-me uma vez que os problemas são como as baratas (...) Se surgem à luz, assustam-se e vão-se embora.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Despite myself, I could feel my eyes filling with tears and I turned my head so that she couldn't see my face. Isabella turned off the light on the bedside table and stayed there, sitting close to me in the dark, listening to the weeping of a miserable drunk, asking no questions, offering no opinion, offering nothing other than her company and her kindness, until I fell asleep.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon