Quotes About Support

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Little brothers are the buck privates of life!

My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten." "Tell him to take out the goalie.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.

I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

All that rescues us is love.

These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to care about life again. They've lost that. That's what we need to give back to them.

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no matter how objectionable the character of a paper may be, it is always a trifle better than the patrons on whom it relies for its support.

One finds that constant quiet sympathy is not only one of the most lovable qualities, but one of the very rarest.

While trying harder helps just about everything, telling someone with ADD to try harder is no more helpful than telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder. It missed the biological point.

You tend to ignore the structures that would guide you to take care of yourself if you are taking care of others too much.

When someone is alcoholic, is abusing cocaine, or is dependent upon marijuana, we often become so preoccupied with the problems the drug use creates that we fail to consider what purpose the drug must be serving for the user.

Connection, positive connection, which at its most distilled is called love, has incredible healing power.

There is nothing that as a team we can't solve.

If you tell a person that she has a mental disorder, you create a mental disorder—not only in the patient but in those who love her as well. The disorder is fear. Chronic fear holds more people back in life than any other mental infirmity. How ironic—and wrong—that the

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson

To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.

While we all need external structure in our lives—some degree of predictability, routine, organization—those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.