Quotes About Support

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don't count—there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don't count—there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book, or the equivalent of losing points in a soccer game, and this absence of negative domain for book sales provides the author with a measure of optionality.

his showing up during a battle was the equivalent of adding twenty-five thousand troops.

You take past instances that corroborate your theories and you treat them as evidence.

He managed to lift him off the ground

We are most motivated to help those who need us the least.

his presence is needed at every performance

porque cuando a alguien le iban mal las cosas sentía siempre un ligero placer que disimulaba bajo un gran afán de ofrecer ayuda (...)

Se fue a Estados Unidos para meterse bajo el ala de su hermano. Sin embargo, los hermanos no tienen alas. Después de cierta edad te das cuenta de que o te apoyas en tus propias piernas o no hay nada que hacer.

And Winnie, laughing at him, lost the last of her alarm. They were friends, her friends. She was running away after all, but she was not alone. Closing

She was able to believe in this because she needed to; and, believing, was her own true, promising friend once more.

Miles said softly, "Ma. We'll get you out right away." "Sure, Ma," said Jesse. "Don't worry about me none," said Mae in the same exhausted voice. "I'll make out." "Make out?" exclaimed the constable. "You people beat all. If this feller dies, you'll get the gallows, that's what you'll get, if that's what you mean by make out.

It's a funny thing, friendship. One minute a person is driving you crazy, making you want to shake them, and the next minute you realize what a crappy place the world would be without them in it.

We do not serve a child's development by making self-repudiation the price of our love.

This is one of the reasons why attempts at relationships so often fail—not because the vision of passionate or romantic love is intrinsically irrational, but because the self-esteem needed to support it is absent.

If one partner in a marriage whose self-esteem is deteriorating sees that the partner's self-esteem is growing, the response is sometimes anxiety and an attempt to sabotage the growth process.

The answer to this last is simple: In supporting and nurturing the self-esteem of our children, we support and nurture our own.

It is evaluative praise that does not serve a child's interests. Appreciative praise, in contrast, can be productive both in supporting self-esteem and in reinforcing desired behavior.

Self-acceptance entails the idea of compassion, of being a friend to myself.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.

Without Massasoit's help, the Pilgrims would never have survived the first year, and they remained steadfast supporters of the sachem to the very end. For his part, Massasoit realized almost from the start that his own fortunes were linked to those of the English.

But I can tell you this: if you'd been the one in this fix, I'd have done the same for you.

What nature and time could not mend, their friendship supported them through. Until the end of their lives, Kompani Linge members gathered often to share experiences that few others could understand.