Quotes About Support

is no love which does not become help," taught the theologian Paul Tillich.)

They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me—Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right.

This is what I would like to hold on to. Please help me memorize this feeling of contentment and help me always support it. I'm putting this happiness in a bank somewhere, not merely FDIC protected but guarded by my four spirit brothers, held there as insurance against future trials in life.

Well, if you can't make a plan for your own life, Vivian, then somebody needs to be your mother!

as a friend's grandfather once put it, "Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.

of the 1950s. It was on the rooftop of our little bridal boutique that I learned this truth: when women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

But Alma thought it would kill her, this profundity of sorrow. She could not sound out the bottom of it. She had been sinking into it for a year and a half, and feared she would sink forevermore. She cried herself out on Hanneke's neck, sobbing forth the harvest of her long-darkened spirits. She must have poured a tankard of tears down Hanneke's bosom, but Hanneke did not move or speak, except to repeat, "There, there, child. It will not kill you.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself.

So that's the final lesson, isn't it? When you set out in the world to help yourself, you inevitably end up helping- Tutti.

And with me and Rosella—things were never bad. We just lived separate lives. What you gotta understand about South Brooklyn, is that the neighborhood itself is a family. You can't break up that family. Really, my wife is married to the neighborhood. It was the neighborhood who took care of her while I was in the service. The neighborhood still takes care of her now—and Angela, too.

If you know anything about the friendships of young girls, you will know that there is always one person playing the part of the handmaiden, anyhow. Celia demanded

Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down.

I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.

We can change our wives. We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team

Moreover, they would likely agree that there is not one special person waiting for you somewhere in this world who will make your life magically complete, but that there are any number of people (right in your community, probably) with whom you can seal a respectful bond.

believe that we are surrounded by a host of unseen friends and loved ones, now passed away, who exert an influence upon our lives, and who never abandon us.

My friend Susan suggested that perhaps I should establish a not-for-profit relief organization called "Divorcées Without Borders.

Here, I pause to offer a prayer for my gentle reader: May you never, ever, have to get a divorce in New York.

It was on the rooftop of our little bridal boutique that I learned this truth: when women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

Whenever anybody tells me they want to write a book in order to help other people, I always think, Oh, please don't. Please don't try to help me.

There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect

It got worse still as time went on because people did not sympathize with you any more. They couldn't do enough for you at first, and that helped, and then they got bored with your troubles. But your troubles went on just the same and you had to bear them alone.