Quotes About Support

The most reliable friend you have is your shadow.

The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.

Those who truly know you see your tears even in the rain.

Two thirds of leadership is encouragement.

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

THE SAFEST PLACE YOU COULD BE IS BESIDE ME." KANAME

You're okay now... You're okay because I'll be holding you like this from now on.

In elevating others, you elevate yourself.

When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.

Lisa, I apologize to you, I was wrong, I take it all back. Always be yourself. If you want to be sad, honey, be sad. We'll ride it out with you. And when you get finished feeling sad, we'll still be there. From now on, let me do the smiling for both of us.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

When you are depressed you feel alone, and that no one is going through quite what you are going through. You are so scared of appearing in any way mad you internalise everything, and you are so scared that people will alienate you further you clam up and don't speak about it, which is a shame, as speaking about it helps.

Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation. Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you 'admit to', it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.

To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.

Where talk exists, so does hope.

Never say 'pull yourself together' or 'cheer up' unless you're also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.

But people get over grief. They get over even the most serious grief in a matter of years. If not get over then at least live beside. And the way they do this is by investing in other people, through friendship, through family, through teaching, through love.

That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another's pain as if our own.

I'm having a pretty shit time too, if we're doing the Misery Olympics.

I think that basically we are all helping people. All the time. Every time any of us speaks openly about mental health, we are helping normalize an illness that is still handled with protective goggles and safety gloves.

As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: "Lighthouses don't go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Life is the people who love you.

You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around.

Yet people still don't think depression really that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.