Quotes About Support

You can always tell a real friend: when you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions — the hero and the sidekick.

If you throw up," Kles said unsympathetically, "remember not to face the wind." "Yeah, Koko. You're the one who's been complaining about doing the same things lately," Leech said. "Enjoy it." "Oog, and double oog," was all Koko could say.

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.

How come it's so hard to come to someone's rescue? How come it's so hard to come to your own rescue?

True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.

Should they be thanked or does thanks drive them away? "You honor us," she stammered. "We request your help.

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

Together, we soar.

We live by encouragement and die without it--slowly, sadly, angrily.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.

At last she turned to the only source she could think of: her mother. Her mother was a journalist, at least in name. True, her mother mostly covered small stories, but journalists found things out.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be

condolences; a few of them pat Hannah on the head, as if she's

He had always admired his wife's idealism, her belief that the world could be made better,

And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk.

All those years, as the only other person who understood their parents, he had absorbed her miseries offering silent sympathy or a squeeze on the shoulder or a wry smile.

It's hard not to think and hope that your children might achieve great things—and to believe that they can accomplish anything if you only give them a boost along the way. But it's also hard to know when you're helping and supporting, and when you've crossed the line into pushing. And it's so easy to fall into the mindset of "I'm doing it for your own good.

He understood everything she did not say, which at its core was: Don't let go .

Sometimes, though, when he saw her squatting in the corner of the playground, head leaning against the chain-link fence, he turned away, so she wouldn't have to pretend to be brave. To let her be alone with her grief, or whatever heavier thing she'd put on top to hold it down.

Something his father once said comes back to him: the shelves around him are not just book holders but the iron skeleton of the building itself, holding the library upright.

She buried her nose in Lydia's hair and made silent promises. Never to tell her to sit up straight, to find a husband, to keep a house. Never to suggest that there were jobs or lives or worlds not meant for her; never to let her hear doctor and think only man. To encourage her, for the rest of her life, to do more than her mother had. "All

For as long as she could remember, Pearl had understood the hierarchy: her mother's real work was her art, and whatever paid the bills existed only to make that art possible.