Quotes About Support

When the employees of "Canada" or of the "Bekleidungskammer" stole warm clothing for their ragged comrades, that was not common theft; it was an act of social solidarity.

By going together we would at least be assured a common fate. In the future, as in the past, my place would be at my husband's side.

As it says in Blake: "Opposition is true friendship.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

it is not always that we want friends to be so reasonable and rational about things. Sometimes we want people we like to agree with us, to say yes, you have been hard done by, regardless.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

the first flush of aristocratic support for the Covenant had begun to wear off when the nobles found themselves being ordered about by middle-class clerics with vaguely egalitarian views and a deep distrust of human pleasures.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Il successo del nostro percorso dipende dalla nostra famiglia, dalla nostra compagna o dal nostro compagno, dagli amici che ci incoraggiano e ci circondano quando non abbiamo un soldo e ci ritroviamo col morale a terra. Sono loro a darci il coraggio di continuare la strada quando siamo divorati dal dubbio. Sul nostro impervio cammino, dipenderanno sempre dagli altri, da coloro che ci accolgono cm da coloro che ci raccolgono...

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

If I want to live my ability to be fully present and compassionate, my ability to be with it all—the joy and the sorrow—I must find the ways, the people, the places, the practices that support me in being all I truly am. I must cultivate ways of being that let me feel the warmth of encouragement against my heart when it is weary.

Most spiritual practises have been developed - and, in the past, were sustained - in community. But most of us do not live in community. Although my students and friends and I share many of these practices, we are only occasionally in proximity to one another. Doing a daily practice alone is difficult. It requires not so much a heroic discipline as a deep commitment to life, a willingness to dedicate our lives to something larger than ourselves.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.