Quotes About Support

Nurturing things without possessing them

Gary Zukav in The Seat of the Soul sums it up beautifully: The underlying premise of a spiritual partnership is a sacred commitment between the partners to assist each other's spiritual growth.

The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

choose to live by cooperating.

See yourself as someone who's on this planet to assist others.

Look for opportunities to fill the empty spaces in other people's lives

effective parents don't want to be leaned on; they want to make leaning unnecessary.

Instead of believing that you know what's best for others, trust that they know what's best for themselves.

Thank you for helping me turn the page.

Misery loves company.

And of course I felt sorry for you, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â He stops running. "Didn't you read what I wrote on your running leg? Does it say, I feel sorry for you? No! It says, You inspire me. I want to be around you because you inspire me! You're amazing. I think you're the most Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â I stop running, and I look at him. His

Sometimes with friends, thanks is payment enough -Ginny Rose

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

I told you he would make you a better sister than husband.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Take away health, wealth, and material success and all you have is each other. Maybe that's the place we should start.

We're on a journey to a heavenly home, and we need all the help we can get. Societies

At home, he (A.C. Lee) encouraged Nelle to clamber up on him lap to "help" him read the newspaper or complete the crossword puzzle.

If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. —Barack Obama, Roanoke, Va., July 13, 2012

From the recovery experience of hundreds of thousands of people, we know that there is an effective way out of this constricting and binding effect of shame: to tell the story of our suffering to safe and supportive others. (51)

Because they have not healed their Child Within, they are generally unable to be a part of the safe and supportive healing of another. However, we can learn to set limits with these people, so that they do not continue to mistreat us. We set limits both with firmness and with love. We do so not with aggressiveness, but with assertiveness.

Virginia Satir has suggested that we need from four to twelve hugs a day as part of our health maintenance.

At this point we understand that if the mother or other parent figure cannot provide these first few needs, the child's physical, mental-emotional and spiritual growth would likely be stunted.