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Quotes About Support

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
~ James Thurber
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
~ Unknown
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
~ Proverb
Ive learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
~ Maya Angelou
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person.
~ Richard Bach
And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.
~ Orson Scott Card
All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.
~ Joni Mitchell
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home.
~ Unknown
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment
~ Frances Farmer
To love a thing means wanting it to live
~ Confucius
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
~ Unknown
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
~ Wayne Dyer
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~ Elisabeth Foley
Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved
~ Unknown
Love is more tiring than friendship for it demands continuous proofs.
~ George Sand
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
~ Dinah Craik
Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.
~ Dinah Mulock Craik
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.
~ Samuel Cunningham
To keep a new friend, never break with the old.
~ Unknown
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
~ Dr Samuel Johnson
No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.
~ Steve Tesich
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
~ Jean de La Fontaine