Quotes About Support

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him

During this Lent term Maurice came out as a theologian. It was not humbug entirely. He believed that he believed, and felt genuine pain when anything he was accustomed to met criticism—the pain that masquerades among the middle classes as Faith. It was not Faith, being inactive. It gave him no support, no wider outlook. It didn't exist till opposition touched it, when it ached like a useless nerve.

Much love. Modified love to Tibby. Love to Aunt Juley; how good of her to come and keep you company, but what a bore.

Mr. Fielding, no one can ever realize how much kindness we Indians need, we do not even realize it ourselves. But we know when it has been given. We do not forget, though we may seem to. Kindness, more kindness, and even after that more kindness. I assure you it is the only hope.

Mrs. Munt—such is human nature—determined that she would champion the lovers. She was not going to be bullied by a severe young man.

He picked up his friend, who was so weak that he began to cry. "Maurice – I'm a fool." "Be a fool," said Maurice, and carried him upstairs, undressed him, and put him to bed.

He was not attracted to the man in the sense that he wanted him for a friend, but he did feel he might help him – how, he didn't formulate. It was all very obscure, for the mountains still overshadowed Maurice. Risley, surely capering on the summit, might stretch him a helping hand.

You all right, Maurice?' – for he had sighed. 'You comfortable? Rest your head on me more, the way you like more … that's it more, and Don't You Worry. You're With Me. Don't Worry.

all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs; and if I got there I should like my friends to lean out of it, just as they do here.

Women—I heard you say the other day—are never at ease till they tell their faults out loud.

Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.

Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak.

That settles it. I'm your man." "You mean it?" "Yes--for to-night.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that." "Thank you," she said. "As good as a man's," he added. "Oh, now you've spoiled it!

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings

Spirituality is not about how far up the mountain we get but how many we take with us.

Be not slow to visit the sick.

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.

A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.

To those you care for, a nurse is a person of many faces: You are a warrior against death and suffering, a technician of the highest degree; you are a mother, a sister, a best friend, a psychiatrist; you are a teacher, a magician, a sounding board, a secretary, a fortuneteller, a politician, but most of all, you are a loving human being who has chosen to give that love in one of the best ways you can.

Sometimes I think if you didn't have me, there wouldn't be a single person in the world who really understood you...

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.