Quotes About Support

Friendship is the hands of love.

This is a serious issue: most people don't have true friends. Please search for one. It's not your wife or husband. This is just a real friend - someone who connected to you without any existing relationship, but still got your back no matter what.

Marriage is not the full-stop of friendship.

Friendship is spiritual...highly spiritual.

Make your spouse your best friend. This won't happen overnight; it takes hard work.

There is no great success and outstanding achievement on earth without the input of friendship.

Come together with your spouse, and become each other's best friend forever.

Friendship is the only relationship in the whole universe that has the capacity to bind two different spirits together.

The result of friendship is hard work not by chance.

Friendship is a relationship for spirits.

To become best friends in marriage all you need to do is to be each other's friend.

Most marriages take friendships for granted; that's why there are only few spouse's who are best friends.

No one's good at everything. And that's how it should be. It gives us a reason to ask for help.

You're my best friend, Shmuel,' he said. 'My best friend for life.

Tú eres mi mejor amigo —dijo—. Mi mejor amigo para toda la vida.

and been committed to a home for the bewildered

Você é o meu melhor amigo, Shmuel. Meu melhor amigo para a vida toda.

said. 'A home is not a building or a street or a city or something so artificial as bricks and mortar. A home is where one's family is, isn't that

You know, some day, when you're all older,' he said, looking around the room, 'you're going to have troubles of your own and you'll have friends who are going through tough times. Maybe it'll even be one of your own children. And when that happens, you'll look back at the way you're all behaving now and wonder whether you might not have been able to show a little more kindness.

relationship itself is a form of therapy.

Children need their parents' time and attention. Giving one's time is part of the work of love. It means being there for the child, attending to the child's needs rather than the parent's needs.

The Couples Journey

In order to be healed we must come out of isolation and hiding. This means finding a person, or ideally a group of significant others, whom we are willing to trust. This is tough for shame-based people.

The best way to come out of hiding is to find a nonshaming intimate person or social network. The operative word here is "intimate." We have to get on a core, gut level because shame is core, gut level stuff. Toxic shame masks our deepest secrets about ourselves; it embodies our belief that we are essentially defective.