Quotes About Support

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

All sorrows are less with bread.

The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.

Presume to put in her oar.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

Ella sería el báculo de todos los que la rodearan; pero si sus piernas flaquearan, si su cabeza no le mantuviese firme en su sendero, si su corazón empezaba a bambolear y enflaquecer, ¿quién la sostendría a ella?, ¿quién sería su báculo? [...]»

Eu estarei vivo e, vivendo, não deixarei morrer quem caminhou comigo, ao longo do caminho.

Cel mai mare sprijin trebuie sa-l asteptam de la Dumnezeu.

Activity and reflection should ideally complement and support each other. Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.

In an integrated family, each person's goals matter to all others. In

Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.

Activity and reflection should ideally complement and support each other. Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent. Before investing great amounts of energy in a goal, it pays to raise the fundamental questions: Is this something I really want to do? Is it something I enjoy doing? Am I likely to enjoy it in the foreseeable future? Is the price that I—and others—will have to pay worth it? Will I be able to live with myself if I accomplish it? These

The worst solitude," wrote Sir Francis Bacon, "is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

A true friend is someone we can occasionally be crazy with, someone who does not expect us to be always true to form. It is someone who shares our goal of self-realization, and therefore is willing to share the risks that any increase in complexity entails.

Every piece of information we process gets evaluated for its bearing on the self. Does it threaten our goals, does it support them, or is it neutral?

true, they abandon faith in everything else they have learned. Deprived of the customary supports that cultural values had given them, they flounder in a morass of anxiety and apathy.

Lack of true friends is often the main complaint of people confronting an emotional crisis in the second half of life.

it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.

In all the years since then, I've never forgotten the lesson that Gary taught me," said Lyden. "I have always told teachers, 'Take all the steps that you're capable of, and then take one more. If this were your kid, you would want people to keep reaching for him.

The Power of Influence I've realized that I choose not to spend much time with people who are trying to change me. If they take me on as a project to "fix," I don't respond well. But when they simply enter my life and accept me unconditionally, I become a different person because of their influence.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 —JOHN CALVIN