Quotes About Help

É estranho como uma coisa que fui ensinado a considerar com desagrado e como idolatria seja, em um momento de solidão e dificuldade, uma fonte de ajuda. Será que há algo na essência da coisa em si, ou será ela um meio, uma ajuda tangível, na transmissão de lembranças de simpatia e acolhimento?

Remember, if you get into horrible trouble and desperately need me, I'll be much too busy with my own problems!

You can't help a man who won't be helped. (p. 364)

I say, sah! Sorry to trouble you to get off your big fat bottom and help a poor gel out! I would not have helped if you hadn't have needed it. You were doing well on your own until the vermin started trying to use trickery. Dottie bounced on her footpaws, her large ears stand up straight. I know, sah! The bally old blighters didn't know wot hit 'em! Lord Brocktree hid a smile.

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

The number of days and years one lives on Earth is insignificant. It's the quality of those days and years that's important, quality measured in loving acts and achieved wisdom. 'Some people do more good in one day than others do in a hundred years.' This is their message. 'Every soul, every person is precious. Every person helped, every life aided or saved, is immeasurably valuable.

It is also important to give and receive within a team. Too often, the corporate world forces individuals to strive and show their personal strengths. However, accepting help from others and crediting them for it is not a sign of weakness. It takes a stronger person to take help than not to take help.

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

Odds of a worm migration coming this way—about a billion to one. Odds of Elspeth improving her behavior without help—about the same. Sleep well, young friends.

what mattered, what really mattered, was that I could just maybe save one person. Nobody could save every one, but I could help individuals, and that, when I got right down to it, was a hell of a thing.

Do what you can because there are many things that need doing.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

Dois homens chegaram a um buraco no céu. Um pediu ao outro ajuda para se erguer até a abertura... Mas era tão bonito no céu que o homem que espiou pela beirada esqueceu tudo, esqueceu o companheiro a quem tinha prometido ajudar a subir e simplesmente saiu correndo para entrar em todo o esplendor celeste. De um poema em prosa esquimó iglulik, do início do século XX, recitado por Inugpasugjuk a Knud Rasmussen, o explorador ártico da Groenlândia

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

He shook his head slowly. "Odd. I thought that hearing the truth about everything that has happened would help somehow. But it doesn't. It doesn't help at all.

friends do for each other what they see needs to be done

Help is a gift that one must never grow to expect.

We begin talking about other things—about our sessions on the practice field and how far Ronden thinks I have progressed, and how far I know I still have to go, and finally about the Seers and how good they have been trying to help us with Harrow.

I hope to show in the process that critical analysis can be fun, and in doing so help to demolish the myth that analysis is the enemy of enjoyment.

Morality has precious little to do with feeling in any case. The fact that you feel a surge of nausea at the sight of someone with half their head shot away is neither here nor there as long as you try to help them.

It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man -- what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.

if you went through life expecting gratitude for the help you provided, you might end up leading a miserable life.

Good intentions, being kind, can encourage the lazy, and motivate sound minds to become indolent. The more help you give them, the more help they need. As long as your kindness is open-ended, they never gain discipline, dignity, or self-reliance. Your kindness impoverishes their humanity.