Quotes About Support

It's nothing to be ashamed of—often the greatest difficulty faced by people suffering from mental illness is society's inexcusable ignorance of the subject.

We moved in silence for a moment and I said, "How did we screw this all up so badly, John?" He shook his head. "We always find a way.

John tipped a finger at him and said, "Yep. Thanks for calling us, Drake. You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

If God was the type who needed to be asked verbally before he would support your side over man-eating monsters, then she wasn't sure what good he would be once he joined.

We fixed him just by telling him that he wasn't crazy, that the horrors he was seeing were real. He seemed oddly comforted by that. He was a lawyer.

Amy put her hand on mine, her other hand balled up in a fist on the table.

mascot for a butcher shop whose profits went entirely to support the owner's acid habit.

Is it fucked?" I asked. She nodded. "Cancer." She whispered it so lightly I almost didn't hear. Then the word flew over and smacked me.

There's no debt. There never has been. We are friends.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

It's all fun and games until you have a bad sports bra that causes your boobs to chafe.

When there are no words, know that the silences are carrying the thoughts and prayers of all who love you.

The realization that you cannot be good at everything makes this possible; you will come to realize how much you truly need others to extend your reach. HOW

I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.

Then don't fall." He caught her close and offered a teasing smile. "Trip a little and I'll catch you.

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

Climb above the pack but leave the ladder in place for others to follow

Culture is fundamentally structure and we all know what happens to buildings when they don't have structural integrity

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

In short, anything that promotes a sense of isolation leads to chronic stress and, often, to illnesses like heart disease. Conversely, anything that leads to real intimacy and feelings of connection can be healing in the real sense of the word: to bring together, to make whole.

Love, social support, and intimacy. People who feel lonely, depressed, and isolated are three to ten times more likely to get sick and die prematurely from virtually all causes when compared to those who have strong feelings of love, connection and community. Chapter 7 describes how we can transform isolation into healing.

In short, these are the rules of engagement, whether in a group or one-on-one: Identify what you're feeling. Express what you're feeling. Listen empathically to what others are feeling. Our group support sessions allow you to witness how to use your wounds as catalysts for transforming your pain—allowing your suffering to subside, your wounds to begin healing, and your heart to begin feeling safe enough to open a little wider.

Because there is no power on earth that could make me abandon our friendship. There is no deed you could confess so dark that it would make me forsake you. You said of us once that we were quicksilver and the rest of the world mud. We are alike, shaped by Nature in the same mold, and whatever that signifies, it means that to spurn each other would be to spit in the face of whatever deity has seen fit to bring us together. We are the same, and to leave you would be to leave myself.