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Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.
Sep 24, 2025
Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
There is no time like the present.
Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.
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.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.
Give, but give until it hurts.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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