Quotes About Support

I'll endure anything for you, angel. Anything.

See? Small steps. Just take it one thing at a time and you'll be fine. Angel, I'm not going to hurt you. You know that, right? Can you nod for me? Breathe a little?" Tender humor mixed with the concern in his face could undo her. And give her reassurance. She was rather amazed at the combination.

We both know there's a ways to go. I'm going to trust you to help me get there."She swallowed, took a deep breath and gave him a ghost of a smile. "But when I do, I'm going to learn to take care of you right back, Captain Winston. So you'd better watch out.

I know, sweetheart. I wish I could take away your fear, but the only way I know to do it is to help you face it. I'd face it for you if I could.

Peter knew she was afraid. He ached to tell her that she didn't have to do anything, that he'd protect her from everything. Every instance of fear or pain she had tore him apart inside. She'd had months, but it was still new to him. He wanted to grieve with her for what she'd lost, let her know the utter terror he'd felt at the idea of her being gone from his life before she'd really fully entered it.

When he was with a woman, he saw to her welfare with the easy authority of a man who believed it was his responsibility to look after her.

Come back to your Master. He's going to fall apart without you in his life. Don't leave me, angel.

punishment—shaming a person, caging them, making them unemployable—traps them in addiction. Taking that money and spending it instead on helping them to get jobs and homes and decent lives makes it possible for many of them to stop.

Wouldn't it be better to spend our money on rescuing kids before they become addicts than on jailing them after we have failed?

Stop thinking only about individual recovery, he argues, and start thinking about "social recovery.

This is what I would want to tell my teenage self. You have to turn now to all the other wounded people around you, and find a way to connect with them, and build a home with these people, together - a place where you are bonded to one another and find meaning in your lives together. We have been tribeless and disconnected for so long now. It's time for us all to come home.

be grateful for your suffering, because it allows you to empathize with the suffering of others.

A compassionate approach leads to less addiction.

Depression and anxiety might, in one way, be the sanest reaction you have.6 It's a signal, saying—you shouldn't have to live this way, and if you aren't helped to find a better path, you will be missing out on so much that is best about being human.

An antidepressant, they have learned, isn't just a pill. It's anything that lifts your despair.

A one-way relationship can't cure loneliness. Only two-way (or more) relationships can do that.

Addiction," he said, "is a disease of loneliness.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." ( Letter to A.F. Oeser , Nov. 9, 1768)

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.