Quotes About Support

No man is an island," said John Donne. I feel we are all islands—in a common sea.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Traditionally we are taught, and instinctively we long, to give where it is needed—and immediately.

Is your adult child out of the nest--and all you dreamed he would be? Affirm him over and over; enjoy him as your dear friend. Don't tell him what to do! Don't tell his spouse what to do! Those days are over.

Think about it: whether your child is tiny or college-age or anywhere in between, verbal put-downs are a subtle but very real form of child abuse.

Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are.

Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this—or that.' 'I' am never 'you'—and my solutions may not be yours.

He had come to believe that courage depended on knowing that there was somebody who believed in you.

Las auténticas deudas rara vez son cuestión de dinero: son de amistad, confianza, ayuda cuando más la necesitas, una mano que toma la tuya en la oscuridad cuando estás solo.

I know," Daniel agreed. "Thank you for the bacon sandwiches." Mercy smiled. "There are times when it's the only thing that works.

If we were the Christian people we pretend to be, she wouldn't have had to take them. We would care for our own old and sick.

there was something extraordinarily sweet and comfortable about a friend who knows you and accepts you at your worst, your most bitter, or defeated, who sees your emotional ugliness naked and is not afraid to call it by name, and yet does not turn from you or allow you to cease to struggle, who wills your survival as precious.

There is nothing more precious than true friendship. It is the rock upon which all other loves must stand, if they are to endure.

everyone depended upon the goodwill of others, on their skills or their patronage, their friendship or their protection. It was only that some forms of dependence were more obvious than others, not any more real.

It was embarrassing to be obliged to watch grief one cannot help.

The very ill have little privacy, even for the most intimate of things.

The kind of man one falls in love with is usually entertaining, witty, and handsome; but equally often he has no means to support one, is highly unreliable

You can't fight their battles for them, only give them armor." Who

treatment—presumably

Friendship was at the core of every relationship that mattered – allies, parent and child, lovers. On its foundation could be built all the other palaces of the heart. They

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

Pamper the mad man.

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.

His eyes closed for a split second and he sank against Armand's shoulder, feeling Armand's hand on his back. Far away he heard Armand's voice: "What do I do with you, my beloved? Especially now, when I myself am so afraid.