Quotes About Support

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing.

It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

Community as caring . . . So many people enter groups in order to develop a certain form of spirituality or to acquire knowledge about the things of God and of humanity. But that is not community; it is a school. It becomes community only when people start truly caring for each other and for each other's growth.

In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers and sisters' they are given to us, whether in family or in community." Jean

Caring is the essence of nursing.

It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.

That is—you are not to thank him for the money; he doesn't care to have that mentioned, but you are to write a letter telling of the progress in your studies and the details of your daily life.

What seems to you the right thing for me to do? Judy

I sometimes long to pat him on the head and tell him to cheer up; the world's full of sunshine, and some of it's for him.

I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years makes me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems as though I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very comfortable sensation.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

I think hard times is harder on a man, 'cause a woman will do something. Women just seem to know where they can save or where they can help, more than a man. It's just a worry for him, and he feels so terrible when he can't take care of his family.

The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.

The brothers are a deeply calming presence. They are warm bread. They are shelter.

Someone once told me that the only good advice for grief is to stay hydrated. Because everything else is just chingaderas.

So Lydia grew up with a mother who emphasized the importance of being independent and saving for the future. A mother who had loaned her the money to open her bookstore. Though Lydia had been grateful, she'd never imagined that her mother's eccentricity might one day save her life.

Paola is a stranger, but her hands on Lydia's back are the hands of God. They are Sebastián's and Yemi's and Yénifer's. They are her mother's hands.

If you're a person who has the capacity to be a bridge, why not be a bridge?

later drafts of this novel and encouraging me

Pero no te preocupes, mi reina del alma—tu sufrimiento será breve.

arms raised. "Me, me!" she says. "Good, I need lots of helpers!" "I heard he was a

This is not the kind of thing that happens, ever. Not even here. Do you know anyone else who's lost sixteen family members in one day?" Meredith glares at him, but he plows ahead. "We have to help them. If the suffering of our friends means

Sen bir insan?n dostunun olmas? ne demek bilir misin? Her ?eyini söyleyebilece?i de?il, hiçbir ?ey söylemeyebilece?in birisinin olmas?. Birlikte susabilece?in biri. Her an ula?abilece?in bir dinlenme gibi. ??te, böyle bir ?eyim var benim. Her ?eyden daha sa?lam, daha de?erli. Böyle bir ?eye sahibim ben.

She had to defend the people she loved the best.