Quotes About Support

It is a terrible thing to feel sorry for one's mother or indeed father. And it's an additionally awful thing to feel this and to know the impotence of the adolescent to do anything at all about it. Worse still, perhaps, is the selfish consolation that it isn't really one's job to rear one's parents.

Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but... Friends, somebody said, are god's apology for relations. (p. 129)

Question: "What do you most value in your friends? Answer: Their continued existence.

Some peaceniks clear their throats by saying that, of course, they oppose Saddam Hussein as much as anybody, though not enough to support doing anything about him.

Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." I

And again and again I have to remind myself the whole art of life is to lean on people, to involve oneself with them quite fearlessly and yet — when the props are kicked away — remain leaning, as it were, on empty air. Like levitation.

I mean, I'm not naive enough to imagine that anyone can be satisfied indefinitely by memories, especially if he's young and full of life, like you. I did my best to help you build up a reserve to keep going on.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say, 'attaboy'.

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.

You were supposed to empathize with your friend's problem, but they were, after all, your friend's problems...

I don't know. I don't really have a plan. I don't even know if she's lucid. I've been on autopilot since I heard. I was waiting for you to get home so I could fall apart.

I have told you because you are the only person in this entire world I can trust. And I do need to trust someone.

They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.

Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.

Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love.

You shouldn't let him hit you so much observed saphira Yes I realize that' he growled. Do you want me to knock him over for you? No...not today.

Your troubles will always bve my troubles,so long as were married.

No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, and many others besides who will help us along our way.

Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn—that was the closest any person might come to heaven.

Hay muchas penurias en el mundo, y una de las mayores es no ser capaz de ayudar a los que sufren.