Quotes About Support

In the limousine on the way to my father's graveside services, I started to cry. My mother slapped me and told me to stop crying. I lacked a model to show me how to feel compassion for my pain.

I know you have been looking for someone to listen to you, to believe you, and no one helped; they all blamed you. You believe you are bad. That's not true!

There's nothing you can do about your mother, but it's high time you took care of yourself. Do whatever is necessary for you to be okay. Don't let your mother pull you down any longer.

After my last call I hung up the telephone and cried softly. So many knew, but nobody helped.

She explains that siblings are often the least supportive of anyone because even though the same parent has also damaged them, they are often in so much denial that they are threatened by your attempts to recover

Nevertheless, when we fail to investigate and/or believe the victim, we become complicit with the abuse.

I didn't understand the experience of receiving empathy, or that I could even successfully seek empathy.

The sense of being at home in the world through social connection with others is a deep and pervasive Stoic theme. Stoicism, whether ancient or modern, sees social supports and not just inner strength as critical to how we surmount rather than succumb to adversity.

A good friend once said, "If you break your arm, people rush to bring you flowers, food, and sympathy, but if your mind breaks even just a little, people run away, frightened and dismayed.

Perhaps in every close friendship there is an element of, if not competition, then comparison. Perhaps that is one of the things that makes a friend belong especially to us. Somehow, in the secrecy of our hearts, a scale must balance.

I'd hope Dad could talk her out of going along on her daughter's honeymoon. Somebody had to.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

As long as I live, when you need help, you will never need to beg anyone to notice. I won't just hang around thinking I ought to do something to help. I will act.

Mothers must do all they can to nurture security and acceptance and never compare one sister to another. Each daughter will have special gifts and special needs. It is mother's job to help identify these gifts and encourage the exercise of them.

Peter) If you don't share the lows, it seems you might stop sharing the highs as well.

Girls have to be strong to protect the men they love.

Luna! Artemis! lovers' spats are icing on the cake! Your just showing off to us single people! -Minako

Always this man gives me strength.

You can't solve anyone else's life for them. But then, if you see someone struggling with a heavy load, isn't it forbidden to walk on without helping them?

It's not for us to worry about the men," she says. "Let them please themselves, as they always have. If they want to war with each other and to wander, let them go. We have each other. Where you go, I will go. Your people will be my people, my sisters.

You can't be the one that hurts and the one that comforts.

Scott once said to me that you belong in three places: the place you grew up, the place where you went to college, and the place where the person you love is. I'd add a fourth component to that: the place where you first sought professional psychological help.

I didn't think so," she says. "Let's work together on this one, OK, buddy? No sense throwing each other to the wolves." Margot is thinking about her future. You're gonna pump my gas someday, Daniel. I've got big plans. "Yeah," he says. "Yeah." She thinks, That is how a man speaks. And that is why.

Mark said to me once, "She's like God to you: she inexplicably calms inexplicable fears.