Support Quotes

It's my own deep-rooted feeling that our souls never truly die and that life continues in some way. I know I need to have patience as my beliefs continue to evolve with my personal growth. As I've looked around at the things I do have in my life, I've gradually started to trust in life again, little by little. I think, How could all of these other amazing things come into my life if there was not something larger than me?

~ Elizabeth Berrien

I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already happened, and I've survived them! I've walked into the fire and made it out alive. Only the loss of a close loved one could have woken me up to reality in the same way.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

The truth is, we never know what life will bring us and we don't have as much control as we might think we have. But we CAN choose how we walk through life and how we spend our time.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

It is okay to release your feelings when you feel the waves coming. It's all part of the process of having to let go of your relationship with your loved one as you once knew it. And remember, letting go is not the same thing as forgetting!

~ Elizabeth Berrien

The intense roller coaster of emotions will gradually lesson over time. But there is no timeframe for the grieving process, and it will not be rushed, no matter how fast you'd like to get over it. The reality is that there is no getting over it; you can only walk through it.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

You have to do what feels right for you. Do not let anyone influence you otherwise. It is your mind, your heart, and your own internal wisdom that will lead you in the direction you need to go.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

I began to recognize that there was a part of me that was stronger than I ever could have imagined. I didn't know how I was still standing. I surprised myself. I was waking up to the fact that I was in charge of my own life and it was my choice whether to sink or float.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

Once you have walked down the grief path, what you have gained on your journey may turn into invaluable advice for someone else.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs and your child's. You become stronger by remaining aware of your own well-being, which in turn makes you a stronger person for your child or children.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

Everything assumes a different intensity when you are feeling the pain of loss. Be prepared. A minor annoyance that you might once have managed with a shrug now becomes a nuclear crisis! You are no doubt going to do things perfectly imperfectly. That is part of our path as humans. Forget about striving for perfection while dealing with grief! If you beat yourself up every time you forget something, have a breakdown, or don't do something correctly then you're going to end up very black and blue. I guarantee you won't want to look in the mirror! So be kinder and more patient with yourself.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

Journeying through grief is one of the most normal human experiences you can have. Nevertheless, all too frequently the heartbroken seem to feel alienated by society. Unfortunately in our culture, we are taught to hold our feelings in. If someone asks us, How are you doing today? the expected answer is, I'm okay. But what if you aren't okay? You obviously don't want to go into a monologue of why you're not okay, but sometimes you feel as if you're going to explode if you can't tell off that well-meaning person for even daring to ask you such a thing in the first place!

~ Elizabeth Berrien

Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

It is important to recognize when you have been detached from life for too long. The fact is you are still alive, and I can only imagine that your loved one would want you to go on living. I highly doubt they would have said to you, When or if I die before you, I want you to spend the rest of your life sitting on a couch staring at the wall. Please fulfill this important task for me.

~ Elizabeth Berrien

For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?

~ Madeline Miller

What was I going to do? The choices seemed basic and slim: Die. Exist. Live. I wanted to die, but with two young children to care for and a husband, that wasn't an option. Exist. I could do that. I was doing that now. but how flat and lifeless. How dreary and endless the long march would be until I met Charlotte again. The only option that resonated with me was to live. But how? I wanted to want to live. That was the best I could do in that moment.

~ Sukey Forbes

What if no one is coming to discover your hidden talents, to acknowledge your untapped potential, to heal you, to save you from yourself? What if the saviour was always supposed to be you? What if that’s why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else?

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Happiness is surrounding yourself only with those who bestow their unconditional love and support.

~ Ken Poirot

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

~ Adrienne Rich

Downfall, failure and death cannot be far from any man who made counterfeit friends his ally and support.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The day I found my smile again was when I stood in my own storm and danced with my tribe.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Plan the number of hours each day you’ll spend on your dreams, the kind of people you’ll love to connect with, the amount of capital you’ll want to invest and the sources of help you are required to get. Make a plan.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

~ Mary E. Demuth

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

~ Anthony Liccione

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

~ Acharya Mahapragya

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.

~ Anthony Liccione

A mentor is a person, an expert in a specific area of endeavour who trains, guides and observes a less experienced person to also become an expert through support, advice, and involvement in character building opportunities.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You deserve a full time play, you can't be reserved. Engage your best stamina, you have my support... You can't be a surplus...!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Give out of your surplus, support someone who's lacking. Give out a little even when lacking, it'll make someone lucky... Have no excuse not to give!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Lift up your two hands, remember one is for helping others while the other is for helping you. Give a helping hand to whoever needs help. I believe you need help too, give help to yourself!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Check your environment and be sure that it is supportive. Some environments do not support progress. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile lands for a farmer’s dream seeds. Change location.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Before you think of asking for support from someone for the success your dreams, ask yourself how much of what I have can I invest? Help yourself first!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Money is a necessity, but not the determinant of a successful life. It is there to secure you, but not to save you! It is there to support you, but not to sanctify you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is not only the viability and variety of the seed that makes the harvest look plumpy. Sometimes, the soil must value the value of the seed. When the soil is not supportive, the seed's value becomes a waste!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is not a coincidence that you and your partner are together. You each have something to learn from one another …. The most important thing you can do to support your partner in his [or her] recovery is to show that you are truly supportive and on his [or her] side.

~ Christopher Kennedy Lawford

Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.

~ Vironika Tugaleva