Quotes About Support

Sometimes there's someone who makes you feel so at home that you flourish.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Here is where I find my strength, Catherine. Right here in your arms.

Catherine was there, waiting. Catherine would take the pain away. Catherine would hold him and soothe the heartache; she would understand and share the sense of overwhelming loss he felt. She was his life, his sanity. God … how he needed her.

1981, Kelly Egan, my first graduate student when I arrived in Seattle, and I bought a house together on the 5200 block of Brooklyn Avenue. Kelly was getting divorced at the time and needed somewhere

My only requirement was that the house have a basement so we could provide housing for the poor. Kelly

The great thing about treating borderline patients is that it is like having a supervisor always in the room.

How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here all the time and I never even saw it. And then you gave me this chance to make it better, convince you to stay alive and I couldn't do it. How can I live with myself after this, Jessie?

When people are upset, they often need empathy before they can hear what is being said to them.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. We often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

Likewise, if we find ourselves unable or unwilling to empathize despite our efforts, it is usually a sign that we are too starved for empathy to be able to offer it to others. Sometimes, if we openly acknowledge that our own distress is preventing us from responding empathically, the other person may come through with the empathy we need.

Our need is for the other person to truly hear our pain.

allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief.

Continue always with God. It is the only strength and comfort for your suffering. I will pray that He be with you.

stand up for justice, stand up for truth. And lo, I will be with you, even until the end of the world." That voice of Jesus, King recounted, "promised never to leave me, no, never to leave me alone.

At a patio party recently in New Orleans' French Quarter, an oil millionaire from Dallas allowed, "I'd vote for him in a minute, and give him all the money I could, if I just felt I could trust him-if he wouldn't wind up getting tamed by Washington like Lester Maddox over there in Georgia. I'm a Republican, but I'd love to support him, and every one of my friends-oilmen, fellows in wheat-feel the same way.

It works because helping people be "right" is more productive than proving them "wrong.

Leadership is not about me. It is all about them.

Everyone around you has to recognize that you're changing. Relying on other people increases the degree of difficulty exponentially.

It's an interesting equation: Less me. More them. Equals success.

The Four Commitments. I need them to commit to: 1. Let go of the past. 2. Tell the truth. 3. Be supportive and helpful—not cynical or negative. 4. Pick something to improve yourself—so everyone is focused more on "improving" than "judging.

I think I thought I could I can but not without you.

Friends at Woodburn

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.