Quotes About Help

I learned that when one needs anything very badly, it is very difficult for him to find anyone who wishes to help him get it, but when one gets over the hump, achieves recognition, and no longer needs help, then just about everybody on earth wants to do something for him.

love people and serve them.

Little did he dream, when he went to work, that he was destined to bring hope and practical relief to thousands of deafened people who, without his help, would have been doomed forever to deaf mutism.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Pure generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving.

It is quite perplexing that those from whom we have benefited the most aren't those who have tried to help us (say with "advice") but rather those who have actively tried—but eventually failed—to harm us.

If you want strangers to help you, smile. For those close to you, cry.

We are most motivated to help those who need us the least.

for someone to be able to help me, he had to be both a practitioner and a researcher, with practice coming before research.

porque cuando a alguien le iban mal las cosas sentía siempre un ligero placer que disimulaba bajo un gran afán de ofrecer ayuda (...)

Quella sera, la sua faccia e i suoi pochi capelli erano come frustati da un colpo di vento. Aveva occhi spaventati, risoluti e allegri; gli vidi, due o tre volte nella vita, quegli occhi. Erano gli occhi che aveva quando aiutava una persona a scappare, quando c'era un pericolo e qualcuno da portare in salvo.

Nick got home the first week in December, to find New York still wallowing in its post-Armistice euphoria. Service men were celebrities wherever they went, and nothing was too good for them-especially the ones who were wounded-until it came down to such practical matters as finding housing or a job...It too him awhile to come to the conclusion that all the talk about help for veterans was just that, and anything that was done for him would have to be done by himself.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.

Are you calling me stupid?says Emby. I think I just did. Hayden laughs. Hey, the Mouth Breather's right-unwinding does help people. If it wasn't for unwinding, there would be bald guys again-and wouldn't that be horrible?

You're like a salmon swimming upstream, Lev offers. "It's inside you to do it. And it's inside me to help you get there." "Salmon." Cy looks thoughtful. "I once saw this poster about a salmon. It was jumping up this waterfall, see? But there was a bear at the top, and the fish, it was jumping right into the bear's mouth. The caption beneath— it was supposed to be funny—said, The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.

Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire…. Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

love needs too much help, he said. hate takes care of itself.

The telephone is needed for Emergency purposes only These people are not Emergencies, they are Calamities.

My burden is borne by the others; their strength is my strength; when I falter and fail, the faith of the church comes to my aid." —SANCTORUM COMMUNIO