Quotes About Support

I was in the middle of my second novel and struggling. Instead of engagement, I felt a nagging worry. Had I lost my way? Maybe I had taken a wrong turn—but where? One afternoon, I met a friend of mine, a poet and novelist, for coffee. "I feel like I'm in a boat in the middle of the ocean and there's no land in sight," I told him. He took a sip of his drink and peered at me over his glasses. "Yeah," he said. "And you're building the boat.

If you always work with good, dedicated people, both above and below you, then you will learn to thrive in an environment of excellence.

the number-one job is to take care of each other. I didn't always know that, but I know it now.

I recommend it to the Charity of all good People to look back, and reflect duly upon the Terrors of the Time; and whoever does so will see, that it is not an ordinary Strength that cou'd support it; it was not like appearing in the Head of an Army, or charging a Body of Horse in the Field; but it was charging Death itself on his pale Horse; to stay indeed was to die, and it could be esteemed nothing less.

This harkens back to Freud's famous question, "What does woman want?" As Epstein answers, "She wants a partner who cares what she wants.

It's the most important relationships in your life, the people you see day in and day out, that seem to be crucial for your health. And the more significant the relationship is in your life, the more it matters for your health."43

One friend can make the difference - even when all others turn their backs (and even when that friendship is not all that solid).

What can we change that will help our children fare better in life?

Feelings of inclusion depend not so much on having frequent social contacts or numerous relationships as on how accepted we feel, even in just a few key relationships.

Una serie de nuevos estudios realizados en el National Institute of Mental Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental) han hallado que antes de los dos años de edad los niños parecen universalmente sintonizados con la congoja de otro niño y la mayoría de las veces intentan ayudarle de algún modo.

Empatía cognitiva: la habilidad para entender el punto de vista de otra persona. •Empatía emocional: la habilidad para experimentar los sentimientos de otra persona. •Preocupación empática: la habilidad para percibir lo que una persona necesita de ti.

Cada vez es mayor la evidencia de que los pacientes deprimidos que se hallan aquejados de una enfermedad grave también deberían recibir tratamiento para su depresión.

good listeners are like trampolines: You can bounce ideas off of them, and rather than absorbing your ideas and energy, they amplify, energize, and clarify your thinking.

Todos formamos parte de la caja de herramientas del otro para el cambio emocional, para bien o para mal.

Attempts to take control violate the cardinal rule for providing a secure base: intervene only when asked to or when it is absolutely necessary.

La transición no provendrá de los decretos gubernamentales si no de las mejoras que el individuo intente lograr y que otros apoyen espontáneamente. - Dalai Lama

Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices," he told me. It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.

Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

I love you so soundly and I will do anything to drag you forward.

She was all the world's money, and I would spend it with her, my sharpest friend who changed the tide, my only comfort from the brutal gamble of the world and the wicked ways of men.

a close friend is someone with whom we can allow ourselves to enter the daydreaming attentional mode, with whom we can switch in and out of different modes of attention without feeling awkward.)

It turns out that having a best friend during adolescence is an important part of becoming a well-adjusted adult. Those without one are more likely to be bullied and marginalized and to carry these experiences into becoming disagreeable adults.

Polish leader Boleslaw Bierut, a charisma-free life support system for a bureaucrat's mustache.