Help: (assistance...befriend...encourage... )

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. --- William James 1842

Do not take drugs because they demand periodic doses and your heart will crave them. You will also lose money. Even for medical purposes do not take drugs if you can find a different medicine that will help. (commentary on the Talmud) --- Samuel ben Meir 1085

Give help rather than advice. --- Luc De Vauvenargues

God helps those who persevere. --- Koran

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. --- Abraham Lincoln 1809

I do not believe we are all created equal. Physical and emotional differences, parental guidance, varying environments, being in the right place at the right time all play a role in enhancing or limiting development. But I do believe every man and woman, if given the opportunity and encouragement to recognize their potential, regardless of background, has the freedom to choose in our world. Will an individual be a taker or a giver in life? Will he be satisfied merely to exist, or will he seek a meaningful purpose? Will he dare to dream the impossible dream? --- zzz

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking him if there's anyting you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it. --- E.W. Howe 1853

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above. --- Julia Fletcher Carney 1823

Little kindnesses ... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways. --- Zadik

My theme is to make a difference right here in my own neighborhood. I don't have to fight the whole world. If I do well where I am, it will make a difference in the rest of the world... People want to do and to be better. They need inspiration to change and to try to make a difference. They need a catalyst to inspire faith and to encourage them to take a risk...(once a Mexican-American migrant farm worker) --- Esau Herrera

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. --- Ogden Nash

Smile at each other; smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other

it doesn't matter who it is

and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. --- Mother Teresa Of Calcutta 1910

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so. --- Thomas Carlyle 1795

The sun will set without thy assistance. --- Talmud

These, then, are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. --- William James 1842

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. --- Gerald Jampolsky

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. --- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749

Try to put into practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. --- Rembrandt Van Rijn

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. (The Scottish Himalayan Expedition) --- W H Murray

We cannot always return an act of kindness to the person who bestowed it, but we can pay back the debt by helping others. --- Anon xxxx

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. --- William Shakespeare 1564

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. --- John Ruskin 1819

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