Quotes About Support

No one knows the weight of another's burden. GEORGE HERBERT

Being someone's best friend doesn't always mean telling them every tiny thing about yourself, you know. Sometimes it means having enough trust to let them have their secrets and still be there for them.

Being someone's best friend doesn't always mean telling them every tiny thing about yourself, you know. Sometimes it means having enough trust to let them have their secrets and still be there for them. -Morvena

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

Nothing we do is ever done entirely alone. There is a part of us in everyone else—you, of all people, should know that. From what I hear, you have been as impetuous as your friend Fflewddur; I have been told, among other things, of a night when you dove head first into a thornbush. And you have certainly felt as sorry for yourself as Gurgi; and, like Doli, striven for the impossible.

I have studied the race of men, Medwyn continued. I have seen that alone you stand as weak reeds by a lake. You must learn to help yourselves, that is true; but you must also learn to help one another.

Nothing we do is ever done entirely alone. There is a part of us in everyone else

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other.

Henrik, you need a wife," Mama scolded him. Uncle Henrik laughed and joined Mama on the steps near the kitchen door. "Why do I need a wife, when I have a sister?

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence.

Friends will take care of them. That's what friends do.

You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.

It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that.

She needs us, for our love, but she doesn't need us for anything else now." He swallowed hard and said, "Dying is a very solitary thing.

A teenage girl wrote that she had been considering suicide until she read The Giver.

My work will be finished when I have helped the community to change and become whole.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together. I

With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke only of happy things.

Put your hands on me," he directed, aware that in such anguish The Giver might need reminding. The hands came, and the pain came with them and through them.

It was one more time, Annemarie realized, when they protected one another by not telling.

Stop crying, you idiot girl," he said harshly. "Your stupid mother has sent your uncle a handkerchief.

I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.