Quotes About Support

I heard a doctor say that the living tend to withdraw emotionally from the dying, thereby driving them deeper into isolation. Not to withdraw takes tremendous strength. To pull back is a temptation; it doesn't hurt nearly as much as remaining open.

I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done.

He said, "There's a sermon of John Donne's I have often had cause to remember during my lifetime. He says, Other men's crosses are not my crosses. We all have our own cross to carry, and one is all most of us are able to bear. How much do you owe him, Vicky?

Oh, Meg, you are a moron, Calvin said. Don't you know you're the nicest thing that's happened to me in a long time?

Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.

She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know.

Oh, my darling, you're not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

there are powers of love in the universe, and as long as you respond with love, they'll help you.

Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be able to do what he cannot do for himself.

But sometimes,' he said, forcing himself to speak, 'sometimes just loving each other isn't enough.

Most people had nobody to share excitements and to celebrate with.

Mary Paula had severe morning sickness and was in no mood to console him. He had to be particularly consolatory to her.

Nothing in my life would mean anything if you weren't here to share it. There'd be no reason to get up in the morning without you to light the sun with your smile.

Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me! Mem stared at her sister. Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst? Certainly not! Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you.

long before your sister revives to come to your rescue. 'Tis almost too good. Not only do

when Orrin and Maria Brand had been killed in that car accident, leaving him as sole caretaker to his five younger siblings. And when

By making love conditional, tough love undermines familial affection, removing the one refuge where people can ordinarily assume they are loved for who they are, not what they do.

addiction is the psychiatric disorder with the highest odds of recovery, not

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.

No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone

Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live.

There's no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.

They lacked something that could have been given to them if we'd only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world.