Quotes About Support

Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.

P]eople, who seek the companionship of like minds and bodies, cannot simply be thrown together and expect to thrive.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

But I still think having Nina standing by as ground control couldn't possibly be a bad idea. Not as an executioner—just as armed back-up, in case things get ugly.

Sie sagt, nach ihrer Beobachtung gehöre zum Leben der Frauen mehr Mut als zu dem der Männer. Wenn sie von einer Frau höre, die diesen Mut aufbringe, verlange es sie danach, mit ihr bekannt zu sein. Es sei nämlich dahin gekommen, daß die Frauen, auch über Entfernungen hinweg, einander stützen müßten, da die Männer nicht mehr dazu imstande seien.

I don't like you being there at night alone," Bonnie told her. "You should come over here and drink my wine." Harper shuddered. "No wine. Ever again. I'm on the wagon." "Coffee then," Bonnie said. "Chamomile tea. I don't care. I want to watch you being safe.

The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you...

940Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Evangelicals usually fail to challenge the system not just out of concern for evangelism, but also because they support the American system and enjoy its fruits. They share the Protestant work ethic, support laissez-faire economics, and sometimes fail to evaluate whether the social system is consistent with their Christianity.

Young people need to be loved, to put it as plainly as possible. They need to be engaged, challenged, mentored, and enjoyed. They, like every human being, need to be appropriately cared for, no matter how autonomous and self-sufficient they may think they are.

So take a look at your own life. How many of your friends or, worse yet, family members, call you only when they want something or have a problem? Notice how these same people never call you just to check in on how you're doing.

The reason 12-step programs can be so helpful is that, very often, empaths become addicted to their vampire partners.

You shared it all, and the other person took you in. Your partner was your shelter when you needed that, was your peace when that was paramount, was in your corner no matter how unwinnable the fight. This was what love was about. And love was exactly what Owen Marston realized he felt for his wife.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

As with Dutchy and Carmine on the train, this little cluster of women has become a kind of family to me. Like an abandoned foal that nestles against cows in the barnyard, maybe I just need to feel the warmth of belonging. And if I'm not going to find that with the Byrnes, I will find it, however partial and illusory, with the women in the sewing room.

In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. We shared traditions and a way of looking at the world. We didn't know until we left how much we took those things for granted.

A trick to play in your mind when your troubled. You think of yourself as a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is someone you care about, or a place you've been. You carry them with you wherever you go.