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No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burden
of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens
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As to the kindness you mention, I wish I
could have been of more service to you
than I have been,
but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire
are
that you would
always be ready to serve any other person
that may need your assistance, and so let
good offices go
around,
for humankind are all of a family. As for my own
part,
when I am employed in serving others I do not look
upon myself
as conferring favors but paying debts.
Benjamin Franklin
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Down
in their hearts, wise people know this truth: the only way
to help yourself is to help others.
Elbert Hubbard
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The
ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If
you
do not want your ego to be involved in this way, do not be available
for others unless you really want to be available. Do not feel
that
you should be available. Don't sacrifice yourself in any
way. Don't
go against your true feelings. Don't carry the cross for anyone
else. Make sure that there's no sense that helping others makes you a
better person or that it will gain you easy access into Heaven. Don't be a martyr.
Leonard Jacobson
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The
greatest comfort of my old age,
and that which gives me the highest
satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance
of the many benefits and friendly
offices
I have done to others.
Cato
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A
hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and
outer life
depend on the labors of other people, living and
dead,
and that I must exert myself in order to give
in
the same
measure as I have received and am still
receiving.
Albert
Einstein
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Let
us make one point: that we meet each other with a
smile,
when it is difficult to smile. . . . Smile at each
other,
make time for each other in your family.
Mother
Teresa
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Helping others, that's
the main thing. The only way for us
to help ourselves
is
to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
Eli Wiesel |
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The
only ones among you who
will be really happy
are those who
will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert
Schweitzer
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Most
arts require long study
and application;
but the most
useful
of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.
Lord
Chesterfield
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Die when
I may, I want it said
of me by
those who knew me
best,
that I always
plucked a thistle
and planted a flower
where I
thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
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When
I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others,
or
else I
hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue
with what is deepest
inside me, which for the sake of
convenience
I call God. Praying
to God for something for
yourself strikes me as
being too childish
for words. To
pray for another's well-being
is something I find
childish
as well; one should only pray that another
should have enough strength to
shoulder his burden. If
you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.
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helpfulness 2
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They
might not need me; but they might.
I'll let my head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.
Emily Dickinson |
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When one has
reverence for life, one will never do anything
to harm,
hinder, or destroy life.
Instead one bends every
effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. One strives to
maintain,
enhance, and assist life to make the most of
itself.
Wilferd
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Open
your eyes and look for a human being, or some work
devoted
to human welfare,
which needs from someone a
little time or friendliness,
a little sympathy, or
sociability, or labor. There may be a solitary or an
embittered fellow person, an invalid, or an inefficient
person
to whom
you can be something. Perhaps it is an old
person or a child. Or some
good work
needs volunteers who
can offer a free evening, or run errands.
Who can
enumerate
the many ways in which that costly piece of
working
capital, a human being,
can be employed? More of us is wanted
everywhere! Search, then,
for some
investment for your humanity, and
do not be frightened
away
if you have to wait, or to be taken on trial.
And be
prepared for disappointments. But in any case, do not be
without
some secondary work in which you can
give
yourself as a human to other
humans. It is marked out for you,
if
you only truly will to have it.
Albert
Schweitzer |
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The greatest happiness in the
world is to make others happy.
Luther Burbank |
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A helping
word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a
railroad
track . . .
an inch between wreck and smooth,
rolling prosperity.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The healthy and strong individual is
the one who asks
for help when he or she needs it, whether one's
got an abscess on one's knee, or in one's soul.
Rona Barrett |
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We not only need to be willing to give,
but
also to be open to receiving from others.
On Hope
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To feel sorry for the needy is not
the mark
of a Christian--to help them is.
Frank A. Clark
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You
have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned
your
money,
unless you have done something for someone
who will
never be able to repay you.
Ruth
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In
my career, I have learned that giving of your services for free
gives
you a good return on your investment, not just financially but
morally.
It supplements my personal integrity.
Stevie
Wonder
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It
is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life
that you cannot sincerely try to help another
without helping
yourself.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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By
helping yourself, you are helping humankind.
By helping humankind, you are helping yourself.
That's the law of all spiritual progress.
Christopher
Isherwood
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Long-range
studies imply that doing something with other people,
especially something for them, is the most powerful
of all stimuli to longevity and health.
Jon
Poppy |
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You will
find, as you look back upon your life,
that the moments
that stand out are the moments
when you have done things
for others.
Henry
Drummond
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We who lived in
concentration camps can remember the people who
walked
through the huts comforting others, giving away their
last piece
of bread. They may have been few in number,
but they offer sufficient
proof that everything can be
taken away from a person but one thing:
the last of the
human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given
set
of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor
Frankl
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Small
Beginnings
Charles Mackay
A
traveler on the dusty road strewed acorns on the lea;
And one took root and sprouted up, and grew into a tree.
Love sought its shade, at evening time, to breathe its early
vows;
And age was pleased, in heats of noon, to bask beneath its
boughs;
The dormouse loved its dangling twigs, the birds sweet music
bore;
It stood a glory in its place, a blessing evermore.
A little spring had lost its way amid the grass and fern,
A passing stranger scooped a well where weary folk might turn;
He walled it in, and hung with care a ladle at the brink;
He thought not of the deed he did, but judged that all might
drink.
He paused again, and lo! the well, by summer never dried,
Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues and saved a life
beside.
A dreamer dropped a random thought; ‘twas old, and yet 'twas
new;
A simple fancy of the brain, but strong in being true.
It shone upon a genial mind, and, lo! its light became
A lamp of life, a beacon ray, a monitory flame;
The thought was small, its issue great; a watch-fire on the
hill;
It shed its radiance far adown, and cheers the valley still.
A nameless man, amid a crowd that thronged the daily mart,
Let fall a word of Hope and Love, unstudied from the heart;
A whisper on the tumult thrown, a transitory breath—
It raised a brother from the dust, it saved a soul from death.
O germ! O fount! O word of love!
O thought at random cast!
Ye were but little at the first, but mighty at the last.
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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it
once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed,
revived,
reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping
hand,
you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands,
one
for helping yourself and the other for helping others.
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The best
cure for worry, depression, melancholy,
brooding,
is to
go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's
sympathy
the gloom of somebody else.
Arnold Bennett |
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If
you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of
usefulness
and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.
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I
hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said
"yes,"
when all it meant was extra work for you and was
seemingly helpful only to somebody else.
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There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control.
We
cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot
prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry,
the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
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How to Be Truly Helpful
What if you sincerely care about someone who is struggling and you wish to help that person?
Perhaps someone close to you has a drinking problem or other addiction; or is working to the point of illness; or is depressed or suicidal; or is doing something illegal that could get him in trouble; or is hurting other people?
Your desire to change that person does not spring from selfish motives, for you genuinely value that person’s happiness and you want them to choose better.
According to Lao Tse’s teaching of nondoing, are you supposed to just do nothing, stand by, and watch this person ruin their life?
Not at all. There is a way to help without imposing your will.
Surrendering to the Great Way means allowing it to work through you, as well as around you.
The Tao is doing the work, not you. If you feel moved to offer a listening ear, guidance, money, a home, gift, job, book, seminar, teacher, or any other form of support, please do so.
Give what you can where you can, with a kind and generous heart.
But do not be attached to the recipient changing because of your input.
What the receiver does with your service is up to him or her.
Alan Cohen
The Tao Made
Easy
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