Quotes About Support

It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters love their duty and do it so well, or you would perish off the face of the earth,' said Mrs. Jo solemnly…

The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten and music silent.

I'm here, hold on to me, Jo, dear! - Laurie

It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us. There are a good many hard times in this life of ours, but we can always bear them if we ask help in the right way.

trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up a word of encouragement.

They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.

replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.

I think that woman can do a great deal for each other if they will only stop fearing what 'people will think' and take a hearty interest in whatever is going to fit their sisters and themselves to deserve and enjoy the rights God gave them. There are so many ways in which this can be done that I wonder they don't see and improve them.

Don't you feel that it is pleasanter to help one another, to have daily duties with make leisure sweet when it comes, and to bear and for bear, that home may be comfortable and lovely to us all?

Help one another, was a favorite Plumfield motto, and Nat learned how much sweetness is added to life by trying to live up to it.

Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.

We've got Father and Mother, and each other, said Beth contentedly from her corner.

a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.

feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

It was the best thing he could have done, far more soothing than the most eloquent words, for Jo felt the unspoken sympathy, and in the silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

You don't give her up. You only go halves.

Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.

I think it was so splendid in Father to go as a chaplain when he was too old to be drafted, and not strong enough for a soldier, said Meg warmly.

She doesn't look like my Beth, and there's nobody to help us bear it. Mother and father both gone, and God seems so far away I can't find Him.

There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.

Oh, Mother, help me, do help me!

Tell me how you do it, Marmee dear. My good mother used to help me... As you do us... interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss. But I lost her when I was a little older than you are

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the ay without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.