Quotes About Support

The foregrounding of health may be one part of the mission of fashion, but on a more ambitious level, this art form also provides women with clothes that support a range of views about what it means to be an interesting and desirable human being.

What we search for in a work of architecture is not in the end so far from what we search for in a friend.

We met it with love,' he cries, as if love were some all-purpose antibiotic, which to Geoffrey it probably is.

The experience of cancer has taught me one important truth at least: that we are never - or never need be - alone.

he took her in his arms and cradled her; offering her not God's comfort but his own, merely human, consolation.

We are together, all else can be endured.

But no - I was his wife, and it was my duty to share his pain as I shared his success. I walked out the front door and joined him on the sidewalk, slipping my hand into his like a thread into a needle; and together we looked up at this sign, once the embodiment of a dream, now merely a remembrance of it.

If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can't, choose their faith over your doubt.

When a step is aligned with your well-being and that of everyone involved, universal intelligence will make it happen. The Tao has your back.

Asking for help is an affirmation that you believe in yourself, you recognize an answer is available, and you are open to receive it.

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused

every act is either an expression of love or a call for love.

She stood and extended a hand. He glanced at it, his dark gaze rising to her face, then gratefully accepted her offer of assistance. "Follow me," Rey said. She turned and broke into a run, the grateful Finn allowing himself to be guided.

I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it." Ren moved out onto the walkway toward Han. "Will you help me?" "Yes," Han told him. "Anything.

She would have stayed there, blasting away wildly, had not Finn half dragged, half carried her away.

She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.

And, finally, how others respond to us—particularly people we are close to—shapes the direction of our emotion in very important ways. Certain responses, such as understanding and validating our experience, soothe our frayed emotional edges, but others, such as criticizing or invalidating our experience, are like salt in an open wound in our hearts.

Conversely, a person with low emotional sensitivity can sometimes have a really hard time intuitively understanding what another person is feeling. This person may need to have a lot more explaining and more direct and specific requests in order to be emotionally supportive and responsive. Low emotional sensitivity can leave a spouse or partner feeling misunderstood or even lead to falsely (but understandably) believing that the other person doesn't care about him or her.

You've got to empathize, not sympathize. Take that loose thread. Start to pull. Let the whole thing unravel. Let's start making something stronger. More beautiful.

Each person if he was lucky found the place where he could shine, and the person he could shine on. At Cranley Gardens Johnny had been audience, to Evert, to Ivan, to the whole clever, memoir-swapping gang. But with Pat he was a closely attended performer - he was funny, almost articulate, and rich in things worth saying.

the tale of a community that provides security in exchange for thought

Anytime you find another alcoholic standing in front of you," he had said, "looking you in the eye and talking about sobriety, consider that God is there, speaking through him or her to you. Or anytime you're sitting in a meeting, consider that God is there. For now, think of God as an acronym for 'Group of Drunks.

Don't we owe that young woman, and all of our children, a world in which their contemplative lives are valued and supported? Don't we owe it to ourselves?

Indeed, mother, you are always our helper. For what else are we born?