Quotes About Support

In times of trouble, libraries are sanctuaries.

Compassion occurs when we open our feelings to the feelings of another person, without judgement, pity, or a need to fix. It is an act of holding the fullness of feelings of another in our awareness and feeling suffering or joy with him or her; without becoming lost in the feeling.

When we help, we are in a potentially overpowering position.

When people are suffering, they're not open to hearing horror stories about others with similar maladies. There is less capacity for compassion at such moments.

Pixy Stix comfort you when you are in a sad or desperate situation, and it is always good to have some on hand.

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

The mother needs mothering too.

Although previous studies had suggested that friendship--male and female--could be a powerful antidote to stress, more recent research indicates that broken promises, dashed expectations, and other side effects of friendship gone wrong can actually raise the level of stress in our lives, often to disastrous effect.

I sobbed for the girl, me, the other girl, the other me, and how he was hurting her - me..."the other girl," I said to her. "It's the other girl, Caroline. Don't let her be alone." (154)

God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.

When others witness or comment on abusive behaviors, the little voice that the upscale abused wife once heard inside her and ignored or muffled becomes amplified. Slowly she starts to recognize that she must stop enduring the abuse. . . . each woman comes to grips with her situation at her own pace. However, talking to others is key to her growing capacity to recognize and label her experiences, reclaim herself, target important turning points, and ultimately leave her tormentor.

If you're drowning for real, and nobody believes you, then you sure as hell better figure out how to swim.

No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted. And I am comforted.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

when people suffer terrible losses they need to have an opportunity to talk about them. Being isolated with your sorrow is such a lonely place to be.

Two Questions Every Caregiver Needs to Hear: How can I help? Want to talk about it? Ask. Listen. Then listen some more..."- Stress relief author, Susie Mantell

Two questions every caregiver needs to hear: How can I help? Want to talk about it? Ask. Listen. Then listen some more...

Childbirth is an experience in a woman's life that holds the power to transform her forever. Passing through these powerful gates - in her own way - remembering all the generations of women who walk with her.... She is never alone.

You know, Savannah, if you cry, I won't tell anyone,' Ken said quietly. 'I promise.