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My friends, I wish with all my heart that you do not make the same mistake. The next time you are suffering, if this suffering was caused by the person you love most in the world, have recourse to right action and say the fourth mantra: "Dear one, I am suffering deeply. I need you to help me to get out of this suffering. I need you to explain this to me." This is the language of true love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
You must always check things out by going to the person in question and asking for his or her help: "Dear one, I am suffering so much, help me please.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find out the meaning of life, no doubt. But in the last analysis the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting this responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
- Thomas Merton
It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves.
- Thomas Merton
Never a choice. Always being rescued.
- Camron Wright
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
This is to assuage our conscience, darling," she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor.
- Isabel Allende
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
- Abraham Lincoln
Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.
- Anonymous
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
- William Barclay
A little help is worth a great deal of pity.
- Anonymous