Quotes About Support

She was his compass. His true north. She'd showed him the way home.

This time he heard his sister clearly sniffling and blowing her nose. It sliced him. Lou, his capable, businesslike older sister, was crying.

Her dad works in a supermarket, and her mother is just a stay-home mom. Her mom was always at Stacey's dance rehearsals and stuff. And that's why Stacey is not rich—her parents don't put in the time.

You might have compassion fatigue, letting everyone dump on you all day. I bet you need a break—everyone else's trauma is getting to you. There's only so much a person can take in.

It sort of is," says Joe. "It's been like that for . . . My mom sometimes needs someone to watch out for her. She—she gets drunk, high, does stupid things.

And, while Jessica had faith enough in Providence, she preferred to seek help from more accessible sources. Her assistant was Phelps, the coachman.

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

Cancer is not a pretty pink ribbon, people aren't sail through their treatments. They are bald, and throwing up and some of the treatments actually increase their risk for other cancers.

True orphans" are those whose parents have died and no relative claims them. But today, children are being removed from their homes as "economic orphans.

Ten years ago, foster parents typically earned only 80-cents per hour (Time magazine, 10-8-90, p.44). In 2010, the range was $446 to $667 per child per month. For the difficult challenge of fostering a child needing "specialized care" there is an incremental increase of $84 or $169 per month (subsidy determined by the child's social worker).

His back to the room, Jackson said, "I need a Chris." Because Chris was gay, Dare choked and Trace laughed.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. —Gretel Ehrlich

What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.

we grow in connection with others.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

two hundred years ago, the philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe succinctly summarized this sentiment: "Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Before diagnosing people with depression, make sure they're not surrounded by assholes"),

Your misery doesn't change their situation. You can't lessen their misery by carrying it for them inside you.

In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him

Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him or her a loving truth bomb when needed.

succinctly summarized this sentiment: "Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously,

What parents needed, I believed, wasn't another book about how they had to calm down and take a break. What they needed was an actual break from the deluge of parenting books.

For many people, going into the depths of their thoughts and feelings is like going into a dark alley—they don't want to go there alone.

Marriage isn't a constant passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane nonprofit business.