Quotes About Support

doing everything ourselves isn't heroic—it's toxic.

all the ways you can say yes, and sprinkle them throughout your daily marital interactions: Yes, that's a good idea. Yes, I'm totally on board. Yes, that looks fun. Couples who make a practice of doing this, he has said, are much more likely to go the distance.

girls with more involved dads develop greater self-esteem.

Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

There are few of us who are secure enough to be within love without proper encouragement - Charlotte Lucas

No, indeed, I shall grant you nothing. I always take the part of my own sex. I do indeed. I give you notice-- You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point. I always stand up for women.

He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]

and their marriage, instead of depriving her of one friend, secured her two.

What! are you never to hear yourself praised! Then you must be no friend of mine; for those who will accept of my love and esteem, must submit to my open commendation.

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

Mrs. Parker was as evidently a gentle, amiable, sweet-tempered woman, the properest wife in the world for a man of strong understanding but not of a capacity to supply the cooler reflection which her own husband sometimes needed; and so entirely waiting to be guided on every occasion that whether he was risking his fortune or spraining his ankle, she remained equally useless.

It makes me very nervous and poorly,to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves.

And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne.

But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.