Quotes about helping others

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!"

[Song Jiang] helped anyone, high or low, who sought his aid. [...] He was always making things easy for people, solving their difficulties, settling differences, saving lives. He provided the indigent with funds for coffins and medicines, gave charity to the poor, assisted in emergencies, helped in cases of hardship. And so he was famed throughout the provinces of Shandong and Hebei, and was known to all as the Timely Rain, for like the rain from the heavens he brought succor to every living thing.

Young men of the present day are very fond of running down women, and think it a manly thing to sneer at them for their failings; but God help the man who, in time of trouble, has not a woman to stand by his side with cheering words and loving smiles to help him in the battle of life.

“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.“

It may be hard to just listen without offering advice as people share their problems, but this is often the best support we can give.

Dedication: This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever it is and however small the thing is they do.

At its best, mutual aid actually produces new ways of living where people get to create systems of care and generosity that address harm and foster well-being.

there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.

Help him by helping him resist your help.

[Y]ou have to save yourself before you can save anyone else.

It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.