But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Helping others is like helping yourself.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.
Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other
Come through for others and they will come through for you.
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.
The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?
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