Quotes about help page 9
“Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
“I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.”
Anne Rice book The Queen of the Damned
Source: The Queen of the Damned
Michelle Rowen (1971) Canadian writer
Source: Dark Kiss
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Shadow Souls
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Variant: What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram
Source: Shantaram
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.”
Tracy Kidder (1945) writer
Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Variant: If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Agatha Christie book The Mystery of the Blue Train
Miss Viner
Source: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Context: I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.
“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”
Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“How can you stay so calm?"
It helps if you're terrified.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Source: The Battle for Skandia
“But that's men all over… Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.”
Dorothy L. Sayers book Busman's Honeymoon
Source: Busman's Honeymoon
Karen White (1964) American writer
Source: The Beach Trees
“You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Ink and Bone
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night
Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
“Michael Carpenter My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.”
Jim Butcher book Death Masks
Source: The Dresden Files, Death Masks (2003), Chapter 33
“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008) American writer
“Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land, where justice is a game.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Desire (1976), Hurricane
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian,… but it probably helps.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember
Variant: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me that i had for myself,
likes, this journey never ends,
likes, you were sent to me because I'm sick, to help me through all this,
you're my angel!
Source: A Walk to Remember
Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 8, Supplemental image at randi.org http://www.randi.org/images/122801-BlueDot.jpg <br class="br">Context: Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. <br class="br">Context: Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.<br>The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.<br>Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.<br>The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.<br>It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
George S. Clason book The Richest Man in Babylon
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration