Helping Quotes - Page 7

To be one woman truly wholly is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world—to brighten and beautify, to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering, discouraging, even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.

Remember to honor the hand which reached out for you when you needed it, by being that hand to someone else who is struggling.

Today’s living people are much more important than tomorrow’s yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today’s people!

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world’s Mom she said, “Sure.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.

We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted."No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die."Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

Make the world better.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God in his infinite mercy has seen fit to place us to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life whatever it may be.

Being anonymous on help, it's feel's awesome.

We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Want to help others? Be yourself. You’ll inspire others to muster the courage to be themselves as well.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Reform is born of need not pity.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen.

Hold up to him his better self his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

Kindness affects more than severity.

Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than on what he ought to expect from them.

God loveth a cheerful giver.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.

As perfume to the flower so is kindness to speech.

Teaching was the best way to learn.

It's never what you say but how you make it sound sincere.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

Trust God, He will care for your every need.

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

We have to improve life not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

Avarice hoards itself poor charity gives itself rich.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

The smartest thing I ever said was "Help Me!"

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.