Helping Others Quotes - Page 39

• Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Giving, Feelings

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• When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to be better than we are in some way. But with this practice you take yourself completely as you are. Then ironically, taking in pain - breathing it in for yourself and all others in the same boat as you are heightens your awareness of exactly where you're stuck.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Pain, Thinking

  "Good Medicine For This World". Discussion at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1999.

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• Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Parent, Beginnings And Ends

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• Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

  Eric Maisel

  Brother, Life Is Too Short, Hands

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.249, Penguin

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• As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.

  Susan Ford

  Mother, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

  George Lucas

  Basketball, Pursuit Of Happiness, America

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Happy Thanksgiving, Position

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• The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Purpose, Life Is, Our Lives

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• All true education is the drawing out from the student what is already there. Teaching is never about helping others to learn but about helping them to remember. All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Memories, Teaching, Drawing

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Communion with God”, p.68, Penguin

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• You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  World, Can Do, Who You Are

  Twitter post from Jul 23, 2010

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• To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

  Lewis Carroll

  Giving, Goal, Heaven

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Today I detach from other people's dramas. I love them and pray for them. I am a role model of peace for them. But I no longer rescue them, or put my own needs last. It is my right to be happy and to help others as I feel lovingly guided instead from guilt or obligation. I respect my feelings and expect others to do so too. And so it is!

  Doreen Virtue

  Drama, Role Models, People

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Aug 15, 2012

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• When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.

  Fred Rogers

  Strong, Real, Boys

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.22, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.

  Arianna Huffington

  People, Suffering, Ends

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• I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Shadow, Looks, Sun

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.273, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

  Cory Booker

  Giving, Expectations, Grace

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Aug 24, 2016

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• There’s something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, People, Helping

  Twitter post from Nov 01, 2016

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• The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.

  Daoud Hari

  Pain, Way, Losing Yourself

  Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.64, Random House

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• To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else. If you are serious about the suffering of mankind, you must perfect the only means of help you have, yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Mean, Reality

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• What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Long, Giving, Gone

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  There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

  Nelson Mandela

  Giving, Energy, Return

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

  Pope Francis

  Sacrifice, Good Times, Deny

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• One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not just to share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves.

  Rita Zahara

  Giving, Share, Can Do

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• Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

  Plato

  Spring, Helping, Doing Good

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