Emotional Support Quotes

• A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.

  Mary Watkins

  Being Strong, Emotional, Support

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• We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.

  Barbara Sher

  Emotional, Support, Delight

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Girl, Teenage, Children

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• When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

  Patricia Heaton

  Emotional, Support, Littles

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• The man was reportedly allowed to bring the turkey onboard as a therapy pet because it was an emotional support animal. It's so cute. It had one of those vests saying support animal, do not pet or baste.

  Mike Pesca

  Cute, Animal, Men

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Mike Pesca, www.npr.org. January 16, 2016.

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• Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

  Patricia Heaton

  Emotional, Reflection, America

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• For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

  Alana Stewart

  Spiritual, Divorce, Emotional

  "How I Survived My Divorce From Rod Stewart" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my memories aged nought to ten are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

  Johnny Vegas

  Fun, Memories, Kids

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• My mom has kind of been more of the emotional support system. One time I was really feeling all out of it, just dealing with a lot of cooks in the kitchen and adjusting to what it means to be in the music industry, and I called her. One of the first things she said to me was 'You have to be thankful that these people even like you, no one liked me, at all, I was not really accepted for a very long time.'

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Mean, Emotional

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

  Anthony Storr

  Emotional, Support, Solitude

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Nursing, Emotional, Race

  "How to Make the U.S. a Better Place for Caregivers" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.theatlantic.com. May 14, 2013.

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• We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws. Civil marriage is one of the cornerstones of our way of life. It allows individuals to celebrate and publicly declare their intentions to form lifelong partnerships, which provide unparalleled intimacy, companionship, emotional support and security.

  Henry Franklin Floyd

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Reviewing The 4 Gay Marriage Cases The High Court Tacitly Endorsed" by Eyder Peralta, www.npr.org. October 6, 2014.

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• The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to make it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.

  James P. Comer

  School, Frustration, Emotional

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• Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You need to learn how to be a marketer just as much as you need to get past your influences and develop your unique prose voice. And you can't do it alone. You need a strong emotional support system to help cope with the frustrations and setbacks.

  Brian Hodge

  Art, Strong, Writing

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• What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  Paloma Faith

  Emotional, Class, People

  "Paloma Faith: 'I have an inability to lie'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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