Helping Quotes - Page 4

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

In helping yourself, you prove you are strong; in helping others, you prove you are compassionate; in helping many, you prove you are generous; if helping everyone, you prove you are enlightened.

A happy life is made up of little things-a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.

He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he.

Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others.

He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!

A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.

The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers the more they did for us.

I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain Remove some barrier from the road Or brighten some one's heavy load.

To help all created things that is the measure of our responsibility to be helped by all that is the measure of our hope.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

The greatest gift you can give is your time.  Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time.  People need your presence.  The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.

With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.

Helping People is Fun. Getting to a Position to help is Not.

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

You cannot always have happiness but you can always give happiness.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

I never fight except against difficulties.

We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason or do not value the things we value or are not interested in what interests us.

If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

In real love you want the other person's good.

If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.

I'm a competitive person but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another it's a very deep matter.

The entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.

Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Goodwill... is an immeasurable and tremendous energy the atomic energy of the spirit.

Why are you doing this?”“That’s easy. Because I like you.” He grinned. “I like you a lot.”“Why?”“Because you make me smile.”“You’re Addolgar the Cheerful. Everything makes you smile.”“Not everything. And if I want to like you, Braith of the Darkness, I get to like you. Whether you want me to or not.

When one is frank one's very presence is a compliment.

To know one's self is wisdom but to know one's neighbor is genius.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

I've said this before, but people love you for so many reasons. Some love you only for what you do for them. Some love you for how much money you spend. Some love you for your possessions. By now, we should know that isn't love, but merely infatuation. Don't be fooled into thinking a person like that is going to hang around once those things are gone.

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

There is no real need to save others, because they will help themselves learning from us, when we choose to shine our light of unconditional love. Through our loving examples others can create, for themselves, an opportunity to act the way they are inspired by us.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

When faced with a problem, don't keep on discussing it. Go beyond the mental barrier to resolve it.

Charity begins at home but should not end there.

Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks you are a pretty rich man.

Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, Abraham Maslow, said, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' Seeing yourself as a fixer may cause you to see brokenness everywhere, to sit in judgment of life itself. When we fix others, we may not see their hidden wholeness or trust the integrity of the life in them. Fixers trust their own expertise. When we serve, we see the unborn wholeness in others; we collaborate with it and strengthen it. Others may then be able to see their wholeness for themselves for the first time.

The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.

Trouble is part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.