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Quotes About Support

how grateful we are when our world is falling apart for even the smallest reprieves. A gentle touch. A kind word. Forgiveness.
~ Eileen Goudge
It's tough, Rose, being the only one responsible for another person's happiness. No one should ever be the only one.
~ Eileen Goudge
Friends! It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine tree and the cypress to be evergreens, and friends are known in adversity.
~ Eileen Goudge
Man does not attain the one-winged birds of our childhood's tale, they must rise together.
~ Eileen Goudge
We always want to fix things for the people who matter. Can't, mostly, but we want to.
~ Eileen Wilks
Do you need me? Always, but not immediately.
~ Eileen Wilks
Other people's problems always seem so fixable compared to our own.
~ Eileen Wilks
Það er alltaf einhver sem þarf á hjálp að halda. Það er alltaf einhver úti í kuldanum, einhver að leita að hendi í snjónum.
~ Einar Már Guðmundsson
Here if you need me. We'll write it back and forth until something major happens. Or one of us dies.
~ Eireann Corrigan
Even with the best of conscious intentions, we may provoke a nasty clash. But if we can support the other person and express our disapproval tenderly, with respect, it will help him or her to see more clearly.
~ Eknath Easwaran
A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
~ Elaine MacDonald
Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities for HSPs.
~ Elaine N. Aron
parents to read, since even highly sensitive parents will
~ Elaine N. Aron
If the relationship has been a source of comfort, it also deserves your seeing that it continue to be a source of satisfying self-expansion.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Praise yourself for taking risks and learning something new rather than for your successes; it will help you cope with failure. Try not to constantly compare yourself to others; it invites excessive competition. Allow time to think. Keep your expectations realistic. Be your own advocate. Support your right to be yourself.
~ Elaine N. Aron
While someone might tell you that you are making too much of your childhood problems, this research says you are probably not. You really were more affected and would benefit or have already benefited from help if you sought it, even if others would not feel the need.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Some of the most important containers are the precious people in your life: spouse, parent, child, brother or sister, grandparent, close friend, spiritual guide, or therapist.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Erityisherkät voivat tiivistää kaikki etikettisäännöt kolmen sanan sääntöön: vähennä toisen ylivirittyneisyyttä. (Tai kahteen sanaan: ole ystävällinen.)
~ Elaine N. Aron
It may be best not to advertise it, but keeping yourself healthy and in your right range of arousal is the first condition for helping others.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Also outside of work should be the relationships that offer the safe harbor from the emotional storms created by your sensitivity. Don't look for that among your colleagues, and especially not from your supervisors. You're just too much for them to handle, and they may decide there's "something wrong with you.
~ Elaine N. Aron
I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.
~ Elaine Paige
May Ted and Josie continue to give, forgive, and receive more joy with each passing day. May they have the love of their family, the support of their friends, long life, good health, and everlasting love.
~ Elaine Viets
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
~ Elbert Hubbard