Quotes About Support

When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

No matter how you resent other people's company, when you have it, you can't concentrate so fiercely upon your misery as you would without it.

What you are not responsible for is your lover's emotions. You can choose to be supportive—we're great believers in the healing power of listening—but it is not your job to fix anything.

If you have a partner who is struggling with reclaiming their sexuality from an ugly history of violence, we hope that you will choose to become an ally in that struggle and find the patience to support the work that needs to be done to claim a joyous sexuality.

Let's remember to honor the courage it takes to ask for support, to share vulnerable feelings.

The real test of love is when someone sees our weaknesses, our stupidities, and our smallnesses, and still loves us.

We would propose that we do love our friends, whether or not we have sex with them: these individuals are our family, often more permanent in our lives than marriages.

We have all been afraid to ask, we have all failed to ask, we have all been irked with our lovers when they didn't read our minds and offer us the reassurance we crave, and we have all thought, "I shouldn't have to ask." Let's remember to honor the courage it takes to ask for support, to share vulnerable feelings. Let's pat ourselves on the back when we do the things that scare us, and then let's do them some more.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Your biggest, most important job as the hero husband of her life is to identify the baggage, help her unload it, and then fill it up with what God would want her to know—how precious and wonderful she truly is.

You can't minister to everyone on your own. You must help others become ministers. Encourage your leaders to develop relationships with students.

Grief works better out loud.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.

My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it. You invariably do.

Hall shook his head. "Humanity," he said sadly. "Sometimes it's really hard to be a fan.

Confirmation bias. This is our tendency to seek out information that supports and reinforces our beliefs, and ignore or discount any information that is contrary to them. So we stick to our guns, even against overwhelming evidence that we're wrong.