Quotes About Support

we do good when we make others forget their sorrow, make them forget for a little while

But I caught up with him and he didn't resist when I put my arm around him and we walked on together like that.

The greatest creative power you have on earth... is to help others. To ease pain and give joy are your finest powers. Kindness is a human miracle.

A firm hand was placed against my chest to steady me and to hold me back.

I had become a magician for them, aiding them to realize accomplishments of which they hadn't even dreamt.

She has been my guiding lamp many a time

We'll get you out, don't cry, you're ours now. We have you.

You seek a family, always and everywhere.

Whatever changes there are in the world I hope you will never forsake me and I shall be happy.

I believe nobody was ever so used by a friend as I have been by her ever since coming to the Crown.

Come along, my brave one. Your wife and son want to see you.

You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' 

That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with.

She wished she had had a mother. Well, she had had a mother, but she wished she'd had one who had taught her how to get along in the world better.

Sometimes Willa felt she'd spent half her life apologizing for some man's behavior. More than half her life, actually. First Derek and then Peter, forever charging ahead while Willa trailed behind picking up the pieces and excusing and explaining.

On weekends, she had once told us, she liked to go to Stebbins hardware and ask the gray-haired men who clerked there how to fix a sagging door, or what to do about a curling wallpaper seam. She really did need their advice, she said; but also, she found it a comfort. It took her back to the time when her father was alive.

So, this is how it works," she said. "This is what families do for each other—hide a few uncomfortable truths, allow a few self-deceptions. Little kindnesses.

Who said, 'You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' 

you don't have to bend over backwards, either, and go asking her to dinner or something. She does have a family of her own. You're supposed to take my side in this." "I thought you didn't want us to take sides." "No, no, I don't. I mean you shouldn't take her side, is what I'm trying to say.

with your family, if with no one else, you have to keep on trying.

I feel the place is falling apart on me, but Mrs. Scarlatti says not to worry. It always looks like that, she says. Life is a continual shoring up, she says, against one thing and another just eroding and crumbling away. I'm beginning to think she's right.

God," he said. "I come here to say I feel bad about your husband, and listen to me, yakking about my own little troubles." "I wouldn't call divorce a little trouble," Willa said.

About your son, she seemed to be saying: Just put your hand here. I'm scared, too. We're all scared. You're not the only one.

Who said, 'You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?