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Quotes About Help

but accepting help doesn"t have to mean giving up control.
~ Sarah Dessen
accepting help doesn't have to mean giving up control
~ Sarah Dessen
But sometimes, we all need a little help, whether we want to admit it or not.
~ Sarah Dessen
I'm not very good at accepting help, I said. It's an issue.
~ Sarah Dessen
And if you discipline an anxious pup, they'll become more stressed and destroy other items — perhaps your rug or the bed. Is this a sign of spite? No, never: puppies live in the moment and in moment's like these your puppy is just confused and worried, and they need your help to adjust.
~ Sarah Hodgson
Some people will punish you merely for witnessing their weakness. Even if they sought you out and asked for help. Even if you helped. Especially if you helped.
~ Sarah Manguso
We should lower the bar for what must happen in a person's life for their suffering to be acknowledged. "The current paradigm is encouraging all of us to think we are in abusive relationships," Hodes explained. "And if you are not in an abusive relationship, you don't deserve help. Being 'abused' is what makes you 'eligible.' But everyone deserves help when they reach out for it.
~ Sarah Schulman
Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into every generation of Americans is born a new crop of buttinskys sniffing out the latest Macedonia that may or may not want their help.
~ Sarah Vowell
This is a sappy way to put it, but the Winthrop who warns Williams is the Winthrop I fell in love with, the Winthrop Cotton Mather celebrates for sharing his firewood with the needy, the Winthrop who scolds Thomas Dudley for overcharging the poor, the Winthrop of 'Christian Charity,' who called for 'enlargement toward others' and 'brotherly affection,' admonishing that 'if thy brother be in want and thou canst help him...if thou lovest God thou must help him.
~ Sarah Vowell
A man like you, humble for life, who wants to feel and live, has trouble—not wanting," said Tamkin in his parenthetical fashion, "to exchange an ounce of soul for a pound of social power—he'll never make it without help in a world like this.
~ Saul Bellow
Free personalities getting no help from either deaf heaven or neutral earth were facing mortally dangerous choices which would determine the future of civilization.
~ Saul Bellow
I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like to inform you that you are a raving kook.
~ Scott Dikkers
Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Lilt pulled away. I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it... She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. Have we all gone mad to want this?
~ Scott Westerfeld
Voinko olla avuksi, sitä en tiedä, yksinäinen ei paljoa taida, vaan se joka oikealla hetkelle liittyy moniin muihin.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wen die Götter lieben, den führen sie zu der Stelle, wo man seiner bedarf.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that case. Anthony: That's quite low enough, my dear... Roslynn: I was only trying to help, Anthony: Commendable, but we want the chap to ogle you, not bust his breeches.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Try a little subtlety in self-defense; it'll help, you'll find out.
~ John Ashbery
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
~ John Bolton
Oh the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fear of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great supports from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.
~ John Bunyan
Making weak things strong is the Savior's specialty, and the way we receive such individual help is through humility and a willingness to come unto Christ.
~ John Bytheway
We are superstitiously timid, I say, if whenever creatures threaten us or forcibly terrorize us we become as fearful as if they had some intrinsic power to harm us, cor might wound us inadvertently and accidentally, or there were not enough help in God against their harmful acts.
~ John Calvin
the Holy City shall not be moved from its place because God dwells in it and is always ready to bring it help.
~ John Calvin
God does not defer his help any longer than fits his purpose. Unlike
~ John Calvin