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Quotes About Help

Richard Baines turned his back at the sound of stones shifting and held up on meaty hand to help over the rocks, handing him down like a lady out of a carriage.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Come on, puss. We'll need a canopy to keep the brazier dry. Come and help me set it up. Pity it's my lord and master who will have the shaping of thy power tonight: I would have liked it for myself, thou knowest.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It wasn't our place to judge them. It was our place to save them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Russell made a comment to Charlotte about how she struck him as being really kind of healthy, in an emotional way, which wasn't completely surprising -- she knew she was fairly adroit at making people think she had it going on in that way (which gets into another whole thing about whether that was really a useful trait, which in fact she was pretty sure it wasn't, considering that maybe she could actually get some help from people, if she were willing to admit she needed any).
~ Elizabeth Crane
There was one pharmacist in town, a Polish man. He was a friend of my father. I risked my life to go to him for medicine. Two, three times a week, I took off my armband and went. If the Germans would have seen me they would have shot me. I told the pharmacist I couldn't pay, I had no money. He said, "Miriam, take it and go.
~ Elizabeth Ehrlich
Maybe we benefit from the providence of others more often than we know.
~ Elizabeth Enright
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
~ Elizabeth Fuller
When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.
~ Elizabeth George
But among the poor and weak and old my strength is obscene. How can I live without a commitment to help at least some poor creature? It's pity someone or pity everyone. And, because it is impossible to act on universal pity, my pity is liable to evaporate. I keep the stopper in. For without pity, and among you, what would I be?
~ Elizabeth Knox
His grief at your leaving is also his fear of losing the power he has had for lifetimes. Those days are over for him, and he is in turmoil. But if you are to help him on his soul's quest, you will leave him. It is your job--your sacred contract--to free him, and to free yourself.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Believe that He loves you. He wants to help you Himself in the struggles which you must undergo. Believe in His Love, His exceeding Love.
~ Elizabeth of the Trinity
Another way to help an active child slow down to allow tiredness to set in is to use a relaxation technique such as massage or yoga.
~ Elizabeth Pantley
But there is this: Both with the discovery of David's illness, and then again with his death, it was William I called first. I think—but I don't remember—that I must have said something like "Oh William, help me." Because he did. He got my husband to a different doctor—a better one, I do believe—although there was nothing any doctor could do at that point. And then, with the death, William helped me again.
~ Elizabeth Strout
This is the best cure for melancholy: to set about doing something which will require muscular exertion and which will benefit others.
~ Arthur W. Pink
noche es neutral, se dijo. No toma partido por uno ni por otros, y ayuda a quien la pone de su lado. A quien la utiliza.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
If there's a remedy when trouble strikes, What reason is there for dejection? And if there is no help for it, What use is there in being glum?
~ ??ntideva
Friends are angels sent down to make good days and help us find our ways
~ Athena Athena
His arm pulled me up from the forest floor,
~ Aubrey Rose
Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
HELP Help Enhance Life's Potential
~ Avinash Shirsath
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
~ Ayn Rand
For all the hard times and tough challenges I faced during different periods of my life, I think I was lucky or blessed or both. When things looked bleak, a good guide would appear to set me straight. Someone once asked me about the villains who got in my way, the bad guys who wanted to trip me up or take me out. I don't remember any. Maybe it's my nature to remember the good and forget the bad, or maybe it's my destiny to lock onto the righteous for help.
~ B.B. King
Here's what my one-time behavior looks like when you break it down. Behavior (B): Donating via text to the Red Cross. Motivation (M): I wanted to help the victims of a devastating disaster. Ability (A): It was easy to reply to a text message. Prompt (P): I was prompted by a text message from the Red Cross.
~ B.J. Fogg