helping

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests we easily become despondent. But when we work for others our efforts return to bless us.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate.

The healthy the strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Giving presents is a talent to know what a person wants to know when and how to get it to give it lovingly and well.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence is to lament the loss of that which we possess and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

When their children flourish almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.