Quotes About Support

Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.

A real friend is a friend in need, not those who wait until your luck changes.

La verdadera amistad resiste el tiempo, la distancia y el silencio.

Vamos a recorrer este camino juntos, paso a paso, día a día, con la mejor intención. Eso es lo único que podemos prometernos mutuamente.

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....

If for any reason you don't like the word feminist, look for another word. The name is not important as long as the work gets done for yourself and for your sisters in the rest of the world who need it.

los humanos somos criaturas gregarias, que no estamos programados para la soledad, sino para dar y recibir.

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

Mothers, on the other hand, are trees with firm roots.

The rural women taught me that courage is contagious and that there's strength in numbers; what you can't do on your own can be achieved together, the more the better.

nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse.

Esas mujeres del campo me enseñaron que el coraje es contagioso y que la fuerza está en el número; lo que no se logra sola se consigue entre varias, y mientras más sean, mejor.

Piensa que los demás tienen más miedo que tú.

but even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.

shared pain is more bearable.

Their longstanding friendship turned into a deeper complicity in which there was no room for secrets, suspicion, or offense; they started from the principle that they would never hurt each other and that if this happened, it would be unintentional. They protected each other, which made their present hardships and the ghosts of the past bearable.

a nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse.

En esos momentos recordaba la muletilla del tío Ramón: acuérdate de que los otros tienen más miedo que tú, y volvía a la carga.

Quería protegerla y cuidarla, aunque sabía que ella era más fuertes que él a la hora de la desgracia.

even though the majority of Chileans, especially the entire middle class, supported him. Parliament (again the parliament!) made it difficult for him to govern; it forced him to resign his position and exiled him to Europe.

Do you know what helps most in misfortune, Irina? To talk. Nobody can go around in this world all alone.

There they could weep at leisure, unburdening themselves of their own troubles as they wept for someone else's death.

Como sociedad necesitamos encontrar la forma de hacernos cargo de los ancianos y de ayudarlos a morir si así lo desean.

Although the family was afraid that without him Lillian would soon shrivel up with grief, she showed them that death is not an insurmountable obstacle to communication between those who truly love each other.