Quotes About Support

We don't want people to be interested in us as a means to an end, as a destination for their own purposes. We want people to be interested in us as fellow-voyagers, people who care about us enough to go on a journey with us.

The firm exists to help its people succeed, not the other way round.

Managers should be hassle absorbers, not hassle creators.

the two southern cultures strongly supported every American war no matter what it was about or who it was against.

You were lonely. Before you met me. When you met me. You were alone. You were a lonely child. Your parents left you to yourself. You never said it but when I held you in my arms I could feel it. I see now. I thought you were strong. You're not. Neither am I.

Most politicians use language to conceal what they think. Or to conceal the fact that they don't think. Many are trained as lawyers and use language to win support rather than to define the truth. Being blunt hasn't hurt me so far.

If CAIR sincerely wanted to diminish the concerns that reasonable Americans may have about the Islamic jihad and the extent of its support in the Muslim community, they could do so effectively by condemning the jihad instead of attacking its opponents. They

every troubled time and every troubled person.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It's moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

Now, I don't believe in doing hugs halfway. I can't stand people who try to hug without touching. A hug should be a full embrace - as I wrap my arms around Tony, I am not just holding him, but also trying to lift off his troubles for a moment so that the only thing he can feel is my presence, my support.

Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. [...] Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to.