Quotes About Support

Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

husband. Richard O'Neill.

On the contrary, she and Harper gained the support of Alexander Lindey, an authority on copyright law for the Library of Congress. He argued that to publish these poems was in the public interest. He also considered it questionable for Mattie to pass on rights to a non-member of family. Hampson continued to threaten but had not the means or will to fight a legal battle.

In her autobiographical Giving Up the Ghost (2003), Hilary Mantel reveals: "I have always been addicted to something or other, usually something there's no support group for. Semicolons, for instance, I can never give up for more than two hundred words at a time.

For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners help each other when they need it, but they are supposed to be together because they want to in my book, not because one needs the other.

I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck. I'd catch you, he assured her solemnly. I'll always be there to catch you, Inez.

DJ can stay here and help Mabel with the fire." "I don't need any damned help with the fire," Mabel said with irritation. "I'm sure you don't," DJ said soothingly, then grinned and added, "but I bet between the two of us, we can make it burn hotter.

the shouting below. Leaving her father to deal with Lord Seawell by himself, he and Will had each caught one of Averill's arms and ushered her up the last few steps. Since his room at the top of the stairs was closest, they'd taken

If you are afraid, or if you feel hurt by something, I want you to tell me, and between the two of us we shall do whatever it takes to see you are happy.

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

it must be said that parental decisions are difficult, and that children often do "grow out of it." But it almost never hurts to try to help them grow out of it or to look more closely at the problem. And while children often "grow out of it," often they do not; and as with so many problems, the longer children's problems are ignored, the larger they become and the more painful and difficult to solve.

If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.

Any genuinely loving relationship is one of mutual psychotherapy.

define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

The essential ingredient of successful deep and meaningful psychotherapy is love. ... Intensive psychotherapy in many ways is a process of reparenting.

You can love friends enough to cross the worlds for them. Kuriel considered him a few moments longer, then dropped her gaze and petted his foreleg once. Maybe there is magic in the world.

In any career, whether as a surgeon, a musician, or a secretary, one needs to have a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

but he needed the approval of a few, to confirm the applause of the others.

A amizade é o melhor pretexto, até hoje inventado, para que um indivíduo pretenda tomar parte na felicidade de outro.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don't.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

Friends do everything they can to protect each other. --Polly