Some people burn all of their energy helping themselves, while some use all of it helping others. The happiest among us do a little of both.
You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.
I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.
The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.
In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.
In the beginning, I didn't realize that I was so open with my feelings, and I had to stop and think to myself, I couldn't possibly be the only one in the world going through this. Perhaps this will help other people when I face my fears and allow people to come into my space. These are the things that I worked through, and in a sense, it's great that I was able to share that, although I was terrified after I realized that I was sharing it with the world.
My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.
Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.
When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.
After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.
Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with helping others' development, rather than with self-enhancement or self-employment.
Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.
I realized that all you have to do is state what you need and figure out how to get it, and be kind and help other people move forward. Check your jealousy, which is always present, and the threat of the younger generation coming forward as they must do.
A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.