Quotes About Support

People with the growth mindset hoped for a different kind of partner. They said their ideal mate was someone who would: See their faults and help them to work on them. Challenge them to become a better person

a growth-minded manager - a guide, not a judge.

Those who are hiding out in cowardice want company!

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

Successful partners extend to each other the same self-forgiving ways of thinking we extend to ourselves: They forgive each other's missteps as being due to the situation but give each other credit for the thoughtful and loving things they do. If one partner does something thoughtless or is in a crabby mood, the other tends to write it off as a result of events that aren't the partner's fault:

This small story illustrates three important things about memory: how disorienting it is to realize that a vivid memory, one full of emotion and detail, is indisputably wrong; how even being absolutely, positively sure a memory is accurate does not mean that it is; and how errors in memory support our current feelings and beliefs.

As a result of the ensuing debates with his advisers, all of whom had different ideas about how to keep both sides in line, Lincoln could not delude himself that he had group consensus on every decision. He was able to consider alternatives and eventually enlist the respect and support of his erstwhile competitors.

Peres took a third course. "When a friend makes a mistake," he said, "the friend remains a friend, and the mistake remains a mistake.

before a victim of a scam will inch back from the precipice, he or she needs to feel respected and supported. Helpful relatives and friends can encourage the person to talk about his or her values and how those values influenced what happened while they listen uncritically. Instead of irritably asking "How could you possibly have listened to that creep?" you say, "Tell me what appealed to you about the guy that made you trust him.

You just call out my nameAnd you know wherever I amI'll come running to see you again.Winter, spring, summer, or fallAll you have to do is callAnd I'll be there, hey, hey, yeah.You've got a friend.

Loving someone doesn't mean that you only care for them when you feel like it. It means that you forgive them when they mess up.

But you look happier than you have in ages, so who am I to criticise? You go for it, girl.

RULE #13: Don't bear the weight alone when you can dump some on a friend.

A única coisa que não existe na favela é solidariedade.

If your loved ones only get your attention when they are in crisis, pretty soon you've got a lot of crises on your hands, especially with kids.

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

In a relationship] someone's gotta be the iceberg and someone's gotta be the sun.

And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents.

But isn't it why you get married in the first place? So that someone can row the boat when you're tired.

Shortus was a fake friend but Oliver is a real friend and that's what they say, that you're lucky in this world if you have at least a couple of real friends. True friends.

that's what they say, that you're lucky in this world if you have at least a couple of real friends. True friends.

I know it's not my 'job' to read poems when some of these patrons have a bad day but it's a library. It's an honor to be in here and we can do so much and I just…

Love is hands, holding you.

He hugged me. It was comforting to feel his hands on my back.