Jim Butcher Quotes

It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.

To friendship every burden's light.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it." ~Will Landsman

In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Daniel didn't have to shoulder his punishment alone anymore. It was something they could do together.

My co-founder and great friend Glynnis MacNicol is only a chat box away and gives me the support (and tough love!) needed to remember who I am and what I'm worth. You can't be your own cheerleader all of the time. Be there to support your friends and let them support you.

When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with.

All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

So, absolutely, [my Dad] will call and say, "I just got offered this or that and what do you think?" My Mom [Lisa Bonet] will do the same. And we all trust each other's opinions. And we all know each other so well and what we're capable of so, if someone's scared to do something, we encourage them to take that chance because we believe in each other as a family.

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other. To catch each other when we falter. To encourage each other when we lose heart. Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.

It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.

I usually need to sit with pain a while. Really feel it. Then I need to talk it out. Luckily, I am surrounded by wonderful listeners who haven't told me to shut up yet.

We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That's part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we'll do anything to help each other along the way.