helping

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.

Where our bread is concerned it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned it is a spiritual matter.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

There are no little events in life those we think of no consequence may be full of fate and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered and of small importance.

When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up but to support him after.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.