Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

ADMINICLE  (ADMI'NICLE)   n.s.[adminiculum, Lat.] Help; support; furtherance.Dict.   ADMINICULAR  (ADMINI'CULAR)   adj.[from adminiculum, Lat.] That which gives help.Dict.

AIDANCE  (A'IDANCE)   n.s.[from aid.]Help; support: a word little used. Oft have I seen a timely parted ghost,Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless,Being all descended to the lab'ring heart,Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy.Sh.Hen. VI.

ADJUTOR  (ADJU'TOR)   n.s.[adjutor, Lat.] A helper.Dict.   ADJUTORY  (ADJU'TORY)   adj.[adjutorius, Lat.] That which helps.Dict.

We draw strength from one another

Nisbet recognized that communities that serve important social functions in our lives, such as families and parishes and social clubs, give structure to our day-to-day living, and thus contribute to our identity. But when the functions of these communities fade or are replaced, such as by the government, their strength as identity-forming institutions fades as well.

What thing is so pleasant, and what so profitable, as to talk of the things of God?