Quotes About Support

Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!

We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now.

The Germans were still hunting Alek, trying to finish the job they'd started on his parents. Someone had to be on his side. And, as Deryn had gradually admitted to herself these last few days, she didn't mind if that someone wound up being her.

Because that's what people need after traumas, apparently - lots of long conversations about the effects of trauma.

It helps to be with people who remember you, and who still think about you.

Alone we are miracles, together we are miraculous.

People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

Adversity often leads people to depend more on one another, and that closeness can produce a kind of nostalgia for the hard times that even civilians are susceptible to.

As people come together to face an existential threat, Fritz found, class differences are temporarily erased, income disparities become irrelevant, race is overlooked, and individuals are assessed simply by what they are willing to do for the group.

Studies from around the world show that recovery from war—from any trauma—is heavily influenced by the society one belongs to, and there are societies that make that process relatively easy. Modern society does not seem to be one of them.

intact communities are far more likely to survive than fragmented ones.

What people miss presumably isn't danger or loss but the unity that these things often engender.

If contemporary America doesn't develop ways to publicly confront the emotional consequences of war, those consequences will continue to burn a hole through the vets themselves. I

after war, country after country, century after century. As awkward as it is to say, part of the trauma of war seems to be giving it up. "For the first time in [our] lives… we were in a tribal sort of situation where we could help each other without fear

Even if he or she is part of a family, that is not the same as belonging to a group that shares resources and experiences almost everything collectively.

He'd been generous, yes, but lots of people are generous; what made him different was the fact that he'd taken responsibility for me.

The earliest and most basic definition of community—of tribe—would be the group of people that you would both help feed and help defend.

Robert Frost famously wrote that home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. The word "tribe" is far harder to define, but a start might be the people you feel compelled to share the last of your food with.

there is no survival outside group survival, and that creates a social bond that many people sorely miss.

He was unable to find a single instance where communities that had been hit by catastrophic events lapsed into sustained panic, much less anything approaching anarchy. If anything, he found that social bonds were reinforced during disasters, and that people overwhelmingly devoted their energies toward the good of the community rather than just themselves.

We didn't raise our daughter, we merely loved her.

An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It's enough.

Successful heretics create their own religions....You can recognize the need for faith in your idea, you can find the tribe you need to support you, and yes, you can create a new religion around your faith. Steve Jobs did it on purpose at Apple and Phil Knight is famous for doing it at Nike.