Wordgrove Post & Review

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THIS EDITION: help

Quoted In The Grove:

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.
~Paulo Coelho

There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
~Frank A Clark

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
~Dr Seuss

EndQuote:
What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing–a very hard thing… But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?
~Robin McKinley

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Next Exercise Prompt: force

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
~James Baldwin

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.
~Richelle E Goodrich

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You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
~Cesar Chavez

When friends asked me, Can we help? I’d say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
~Charlie Sheen

It’s always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and to share the marvelous moments with as well.
~Jane Poynter

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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
~Abraham Lincoln

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
~Ronald Reagan

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
~Pope Paul VI

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If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.
~Lilla Watson

You can’t change the world alone ‒ you will need some help ‒ and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
~William H McRaven

If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
~William H McRaven

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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
~Swami Vivekananda

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
~Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
~John W Gardner

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Every man’s in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.
~Janet Morris

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
~Virgil

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need ‒ go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help ‒ the only ones.
~John Steinbeck

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Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.
~Dr Albert Schweitzer

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
~John Bunyan

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
~Ann Landers

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
~Abraham Lincoln

I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
~Mahatma Gandhi

A person’s behaviour towards the helpless animals reveals his true character.
~Ranjana Sengupta

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Be helpful to all who need your assistance, but don’t overdo it. Over-helpfulness too often results in under-performance.
~Mardy Grothe

Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.
~Harriet Lerner

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
~W H Davies

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There are certain circumstances where I feel a little unlucky or why did this happen to me but I’m sort of transitioning from that and finding ways that I can learn from it and help with it.
~Mardy Fish

I used to doubt my ability and what I was capable of, and then I changed my mindset. It made me a better person, a better advocate, and opened doors for me to help instigate real change.
~Dylan Alcott (wheelchair sports)

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
~Orison Swett Marden

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The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
~Anouk Aimee

No matter what twists and turns your life offers you, your ability to be adaptable and flexible will help you to stay open to all of the hidden gifts that difficulty may offer.
~Mandy Ingber

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
~Ralph Marston

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The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
~Melody Beattie

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books ‒ especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
~John Wooden

The Top 10 Most Effective Things That You Can Say: 1. Thank you very much. 2, You are so right. 3. How can I help you right now? 4. I ask that you … 5. I apologize for what has happened. 6. Why is that? 7. Are you willing to …? 8. I love you. 9. Will you help me? 10. Yes.
~Thomas Leonard

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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
~Marianne Williamson

Everybody can be great… because any-body can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve… You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
~Martin Luther King Jr

Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
~Joel Osteen

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
~Buddha

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare

If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.
~Buddha

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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
~Saint Francis de Sales

Is it possible to believe in angels and not believe in God because I could use the help.
~author unknown

We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.
~Luciano De Crescenzo

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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream
~Paulo Coelho

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~William James

Faith is the substance of hope ‒ of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person ‒ that is faith.
~Duane Chapman

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It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky!
~Stasi Eldredge

It’s always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than… um, wait, than… something, maybe.
~Demetri Martin

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
~Bertrand Russell

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No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
~Susie Orbach

There are certain circumstances where I feel a little unlucky or why did this happen to me but I’m sort of transitioning from that and finding ways that I can learn from it and help with it.
~Mardy Fish

Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
~Karen Salmansohn

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I find myself having rehearsal chats, in my head, for conversations I need to have. Sometimes they are arguments, things I need to get off my chest, award acceptance speeches. Ultimately, it clears my mind, helps me focus my thoughts, and sometimes alleviates the need for the real conversation.
~Michael Lomenda

When we’re silent for a moment, it helps us to hear the hum of the universe. Hear the message or what the universe is trying to tell you. It’s your inner voice and instinct. If you’re hearing that, then you’re in the flow of things.
~Giancarlo Esposito

Silent mantra practice helps me respond rather than react.
~Sarah MacLean

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Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life ‒ a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
~Princess Diana

If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
~Sai Baba

There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
~Lionel Messi

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On ‘Oz’ one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head ‒ real Frankenstein stitches.
~J K Simmons

This conflict is one thing I’ve been waiting for. I’m well and strong and young ‒ young enough to go to the front. If I can’t be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers.
~Clara Barton

We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don’t feel they would help anybody.
~Sabrina Carpenter

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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
~Herman Melville

Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Sometimes the hardest thing we ever must do is ask for help. We want to show everyone that we can do it all, that we have it under control. But the reality is that asking for help is not a sign of weakness ‒ it is the greatest sign of strength.
~Kendra Scott

Everybody needs help, even Superman. That’s why he had the Justice League.
~Rasheed Wallace

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The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.
~Sheri Fink

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
~Mother Teresa

After the verb ‘to Love’, ‘to Help’ is the most beautiful verb in the world.
~Bertha von Suttner

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Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.
~Pema Chodron

Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.
~Chesa Boudin

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
~Les Brown

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
~Charles Dickens

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
~Abraham Lincoln

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.
~John Wesley

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Posted From The Grove

What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
~Simone Weil

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
~Howard Zinn

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
~Virginia Woolf

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Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
~Thomas Sowell

Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) ‒ maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver.
~Yoweri Museveni

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America is made of different races and different religions, but we’re all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.
~Stan Lee

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
~John F Kennedy

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Two things are indispensable for subduing enemies: wealth and an army to utterly strike down the foe. Without wealth and property, you are helpless and lack allies.
~Tibetan Proverb

But helpless hands have always meant a helpless people. Loss of personal self-reliance means loss of economic freedom, without which there are few political rights.
~Alfred Henry

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The truth is helpless when up against perception.
~Zack W Van

I have a very particular viewpoint on politics. It is from a young perspective. I feel helpless, but I realize that I am not helpless if I raise my voice.
~Virgil Abloh

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
~Martin Luther

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
~Lewis Mumford

The bold are helpless without cleverness.
~Euripides

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If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.
~John Lancaster Spalding

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
~Frank Herbert

When the cage is closed nobody is going to help you.
~Islam Makhachev

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If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.
~Lilla Watson

You can’t change the world alone ‒ you will need some help ‒ and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
~William H McRaven

If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
~William H McRaven

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I believe the land of Palestine will be returned to owners of the land with the help of God.
~Hassan Rouhani

We live in this world, not another one that we’d prefer, and sometimes it’s necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.
~Noam Chomsky

I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What’s right is right and what’s wrong is wrong.
~Q’orianka Kilcher

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it’s doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don’t have money need some help.
~Kid Rock

People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term.
~Jennifer Ashton

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
~Nicholas D Kristof

If God has given me this many large blessings in such little time, why not help the people that need it?
~Ozuna

You kept quiet… When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.
~Paul Kagame

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It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
~Lech Walesa

Victims always feel alone and helpless.
~Deepak Chopra

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The [Libyan] rebels this week kind of hinted to the United States that they could use a little help. Right. Like, America would just blunder around the Middle East killing people without all the facts. That doesn’t sound like the America I know.
~Bill Maher

Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world’s population and defending it for most of the rest.
~Margaret Thatcher

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I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote ‒ not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?
~Jello Biafra

Examine the platforms of both parties. Examine the character of both parties. Get down on your knees. Say, Lord, help me make this decision. And then go vote.
~Max Lucado

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It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
~Barack Obama

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

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
~Andrew Carnegie

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
~John D Rockefeller

God helps those who help themselves.
~Benjamin Franklin

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For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.
~Joe Jamail

I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly the heroes and the heroines of the legal profession.
~Janet Reno

The affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
~AJ Heschel

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
~Pearl S Buck

Help publicly. Help privately. Help in your actions by recycling and conserving and protecting, but help also in your attitude. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help bring reason and respect to discourse and debate. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help law bring justice, until justice is commonplace. Help and you will abolish apathy—the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
~Tom Hanks

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
~George Eliot

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
~Steve Maraboli

Remember that small acts of kindness are big acts of kindness to the helpless.
~Michael Robert Lawrence

A single generosity enlarges the world.
~Mary Anne Radmacher

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
~Walter Reuther

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so ‒ to ‘do unto others.’
~Stephen Moore

The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don’t. It’s a society where relationships are built on love.
~Myles Munroe

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
~Flora Edwards

If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
~Aung San Suu Kyi

Because doing a good deed and helping a neighbor is like planting a seed. You plant a good deed, then watch it grow and bloom like a flower.
~Miss Spider

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~Nelson Henderson

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It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
~Penn Jillette

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me ‘
~Brian Tracy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
~John F Kennedy

Where there is no will, no rules or laws can help.
~Helmut Kohl

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Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it’s an earthquake ‒ when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.
~Martin Luther King III

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
~Walter Scott

I think we forget sometimes how blessed we are to be able to help others and make a difference!
~Gautam Rode

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Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
~Ben Shapiro

I’m urging all my millennial peers and the young people coming up behind us to look for signs and symptoms of them being in a Democrat-induced delusion. Don’t confuse the dream state of the socialists with any sort of reality. If you spot any signs of this politically terminal affliction within yourself, please seek help.
~Charlie Kirk

One of the worst forms of government is a pure democracy, that is, one in which the citizens enact and administer the laws directly. Such a government is helpless against the mischiefs of faction.
~James Madison

With the end of the cold war, all the ‘isms’ of the 20th century ‒ Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism ‒ have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true, the help of all mankind.
~Jack Kemp (comma added for clarity ~Ed Note)

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Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
~Donald Rumsfeld

Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy ‒ it’s a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way.
~Tracee Ellis Ross

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
~George W Bush

I know no words of prayer ‒ God help me because I can not help myself.
~Harold E Hughes (Gov/Sen, switched parties)

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The pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to help. If somebody attacks Japan, we have to help Japan.
~Donald Trump

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
~Charles Dudley Warner

You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
~Cesar Chavez

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.
~Henry Kissinger

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The CDC has always been an example of unbiased and thorough medical research, both in America and around the world, and we must continue to provide the doctors and experts at the CDC the resources they need to help solve and prevent public health crises.
~Lucy McBath

When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
~Jonathan Haidt

Let’s start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.
~Jeffrey Sachs

The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.
~Michael Shellenberger

There’s a mental health problem in the sense that people are so afraid of the stigma that they don’t get help. But there’s absolutely a gun control problem in the country.
~Rosalynn Carter

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
~Ronald Reagan

People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, ‘I’m free at last.’
~Ed Koch

The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget… has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
~Lionel Murphy

Backbiting is the tool of the helpless.
~Hazrat Ali

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If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
~Jim Mattis

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
~Nelson Mandela

By doing something positive in this world, you’re helping people and the future. We’re all trying to help the world… make it a better place to live. We’re actually still changing the world, aren’t we?
~Rick Danko

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Giving and receiving kindness are easy ways to feel good and to help others feel good too. People, organizations, and societies thrive when they are grounded in a culture of kindness.
~Vivek Murthy

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
~Jan Schakowsky

At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don’t think you can help but be involved.
~Nina Simone

It’s sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
~Morgan Freeman

I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and ‒ at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together ‒ that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.
~Tammy Duckworth

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I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help ‒ and God’s.
~Lyndon B Johnson (post-JFK)

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I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the ’70s and ’80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn’t actual hatred, it was just that blind, ‘Let’s pick on that guy.’ You know, and you’ve got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I’m sure that didn’t help.
~Russell Peters

In this system called America, white privilege reigns supreme but to me, I have to embrace what I am and how special we are as a people. I have to know that God put me here for a real reason and He blessed me with divine privilege and there’s a divine system that I can tap into that can help me overcome any obstacle that stands in my way.
~Charlamagne Tha God

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man‒not a color.
~Adlai Stevenson

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race ‒ racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic ‒ what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
~Kanye West

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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
~Jackie Robinson

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it’s half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
~Althea Gibson (US, tennis/golf)

After I was fortunate enough to achieve my dreams on the court, I have done my best to, in turn, help young people achieve theirs.
~Evonne Goolagong Cawley (Australia, tennis)

Work hard, be honest, help people, never give up, love your fellow man and woman, give back to society, and don’t ever discriminate.
~Jesse White (actor or politician, either might have)

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~The Scottish Comedy Channel; Sarcasmaholics Anonymous (3:04) sincerely so

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~22 Minutes: What does a pot sobriety test look like? (1:52) a Canadian border production

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Every time I go into a new venture, I find a “rabbi” who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.
~Russell Simmons

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
~Booker T Washington

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
~Thomas Jefferson

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None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.
~Harvey Mackay

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
~Alfred North Whitehead

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
~Napolean Hill

Be helpful ‒ even if there’s no immediate profit in it.
~Susan Ward

Doing things for others always pays dividends.
~Claude M Bristol

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No one in this world, so far as I know ‒ and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me ‒ has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
~H L Mencken

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
~Jeffrey Gitomer

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Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.
~Harold S Kushner

The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don’t give up.
~Evelyn Lauder

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
~Zig Ziglar

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Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We must prepare people to be nimble enough to adapt to an ever-evolving marketplace. And we must help them develop skills that will be valued no matter what tomorrow’s jobs are ‒ skills like creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration.
~Tae Yoo

I talked jive, I talked trash, I did whatever I could to help fill the seats and make professional wrestling interesting for the fans.
~Superstar Billy Graham

A better way to help American companies compete against competitors abroad is to remove all series and myriad of obstacles they face in America, whether it’s union rules in some states or massive amounts of regulation imposed upon them, one of the most expensive combined corporate tax rates on the planet.
~Marco Rubio

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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
~Oliver Tambo (South AfrIca)

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you’re trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing ‒ building empathy for the people that you’re entrusted to help.
~David M Kelley

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Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn’t produce any help for the world.
~Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~Colin Powell

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A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
~Simon Sinek

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
~Jim Rohn

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it’s a magnificent profession.
~Clayton M. Christensen

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I like pressure. It’s that kind of thing that will actually help me perform to the best of my abilities. It will help me with training. It’ll help with everything.
~CM Punk (wrestler/actor)

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
~Robert Baden-Powell

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In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King ‒ and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
~Boris Spassky (Russia)

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
~Jack Dempsey (WBA)

Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, I admit, are very good for the ordinary club player. But once you’ve reached a certain strength you get the impression that everything that Euwe writes is a lie.
~Bent Larsen (chess)

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Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.
~Eliud Kipchoge

Competing helps me to polish my shape.
~Blanka Vlasic (high jump)

The mental game is what separates the good players from the great players. So anything I can do to get that mental edge to help me stay my best, I’m gonna try and do it.
~Aaron Judge (@bat star)

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When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, ‘I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.’ He told me, ‘We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.’
~Tony Dungy (coach, author)

Edwards said he would like to be remembered for the impact he has had on the lives of his players. In this business we are judged by wins and losses in the media. I don’t discount that, but I’ve never concerned myself much with that … except that it helps me stay employed.
~LaVell Edwards (coach)

When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate
~Nick Saban (coach/sportscaster)

My dad was a huge help. He told me that it’s going to be different going to North America. It’s a different game, a different style of hockey. He really helped me in that regard.
~Leon Draisaitl (Germany)

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To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.
~Tom Brady

Working on your ball skills every single day ‒ taking that little bit of time to help hand-eye coordination definitely goes a long way.
~Justin Jefferson

It’s like everything in football ‒ and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It’s very simple in the end.
~Johan Cruyff

I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.
~Ricky Williams (running back))

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Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.
~LeBron James (NBA)

First of all, I am and I remain a goalkeeper, but I try to be involved as much as I can and to help the defenders. I try to read dangerous situations in advance.
~Manuel Neuer (soccer)

Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I’m not captain.
~Yuvraj Singh (cricket)

It’s not all about strength, there is so much more involved, getting the horse into a rhythm, getting the horse to try for you, it’s being patient and I’m so glad to win Melbourne Cup and hopefully, it will help female jockeys from now on to get more of a go.
~Michelle Payne (equestrian)

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.
~Grantland Rice (golf)

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§ VIDEO:

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
~Ben Affleck

What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.
~Giancarlo Esposito

It’s been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.
~Margot Robbie

I still know I have an awful lot to learn, and I hope I’m put in whatever situation it is that’s gonna help me learn it, or that I’ll get to watch really good people do what they do.
~Laura Linney

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I think it’s helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.
~Whit Stillman

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.
~Jean-Luc Godard

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I don’t believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn’t have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn’t help me.
~Salma Hayek

The thing about sports movies is, they can’t help but feel epic ‒ putting music to images, etc.
~Lindsey Shaw

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I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.
~Jason Momoa

Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.
~Kirti Kulhari

The bikini scenes in ‘Billa’ were vital because they showed me as a seductress. I’d like to say here that outfits define a character and help an actor, say, 30 per cent, the rest depends on one’s histrionic skills.
~Anushka Shetty

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.
~Claude Chabrol

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
~Ernst Fischer

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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
~Stephen King

‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ said Alice. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.’
~Lewis Carroll

The arts help complete a person. I truly believe that.
~Henry Winkler

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When you’re young, there are always going to be one or two people who take a shine to you or get you and want to help you. Thank God for them.
~Douglas Henshall (actor)

You don’t need everyone to help you. You just need one touch of favor, and you will accomplish in a split second what could have taken your whole lifetime.
~Joel Osteen

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Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
~Kevin Feige (Marvel Studios)

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
~Frank A Clark

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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
~Joan of Arc

I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
~SZA

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…get you where you want ‒ freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
~James Altucher (investor)

What I love about the TED is that it’s not, ‘Hey, take this check and enjoy.’ It’s, ‘Do something with this, and we’ll help you.’ I think that’s the most beautiful prize I’ve ever heard of.
~JR

I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: ‘Are you a self-made man?’ ‒ and he turned around and said: ‘No man is self-made;’ and certainly, if you want to make films or get into television or even theatre, the amount of help that you need, the amount of people who need to give you a helping hand is extraordinary.
~Christian McKay

I really don’t like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don’t know how to create by taking the easy routes. I’ve tried, you know, I’ve tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
~Jack White

I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that’s a thing that’s going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.
~Martha Wainwright

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And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
~John Lennon

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
~Muhammad Ali

Living in Hollywood, it’s easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn’t help me.
~Marilyn Manson

Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant ‒ Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs ‒ as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They’ll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I’ll always be together with the other two laureates.
~Ada Yonath (Nobel, chemistry)

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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don’t have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
~B.o.B

I don’t really know much about the fashion world. I have a few stylist friends that help me find stuff. So they know all about the vintage fashion world; I just kind of describe to them what I want and they find a lot of it for me.
~BØRNS

…and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person… But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?
~Miuccia Prada

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Products are a must ‒ full stop. I’m sorry to say it, but that bob won’t look so sleek on its own ‒ you need a little help. It doesn’t have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
~Beth Ditto

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In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.
~Edmund White (novelist)

“I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?”
“Yes, darling, with a little help from others.”
~Oscar Wilde

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
~Emily Bronte (beauty)

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Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That’s its role.
~Dieter Rams

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
~Vivienne Westwood

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~Michael Barringer: Help Me Mary (14:41) inured against death at work , learning to feel, again

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~Omeleto: Coming Out With The Help Of A Time Machine (15:26) unorthodox love, another culture, different approaches… family

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~Omeleto: Call Connect (16:43) suicide helpline, intense drama, glazed look at the end says it all

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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
~Maria Montessori

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
~Magic Johnson

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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
~Jack Nicklaus

Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
~Ellen Key

When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
~Fred Rogers

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, ‘Good!’
~Cheryl Ladd

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
~A P J Abdul Kalam (scientist, ex-Pres, India)

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
~Jack Ma

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Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
~Jimmy Buffett

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
~George Burns

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn’t fall, I started to consider retiring.
~James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small)

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball ‒ the further I am rolled the more I gain.
~Susan B Anthony

When we are infants, we are helpless… We can’t eat, somebody has to feed us. During the end too, when we become old, helpless and fall sick, again the same thing happens. In between, there is a period, when we really think or imagine that we are under control. Actually, we are not. If we realize this, then we have surrendered.
~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience ‒ to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I want to help educate. I want to show how you can stand strong without anger. Taking the high road.
~Patty Mills

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
~Benjamin Disraeli

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
~Galileo Galilei

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
~Ric Ocasek

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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
~Toni Morrison

If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.
~William Lipscomb

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The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
~Walter B Knight

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You can’t get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
~Randy Pausch

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A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
~Robert E Lee

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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
~Horace Mann

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We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we’ve made choices by default, when we haven’t designed our lives on our own.
~Richard Bach

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§ MUSIC:

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
~John Coltrane

It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
~Paul Simon

I always try to write about something that’s actually happened or it doesn’t always have to have happened to me, but it has to have happened at some point. So every single lyric that you hear comes from some kind of story that I’ve come across in my life. I like to think that that maybe helps me mean it a bit more and if you don’t mean it, it ceases to be soul music.
~Joss Stone

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
~Mahalia Jackson

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can’t help responding to its honesty. It’s music that finds its way deep into your soul because it’s strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
~Alison Krauss

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Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn’t live like a star. He’d taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
~Amy Grant

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.
~Gord Downie

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I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
~Taylor Swift

I don’t know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
~Michael Franti

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First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can’t help it.
~Tom Jones

I have people who look after me and help me when I’m out of town. But when I’m at home in LA it’s my time and I love to just get in my car, crank up the music and relax.
~Carmen Electra

Thanks for the joy that you’re givin’ me
I want you to know I believe in your song
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You help me along, makin’ me strong,
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n’ roll
And drift away . . .
~Dobie Gray

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My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you’re partying and havin’ a good time
~Pitbull

Listening to John Bonham is just a sheer celebration of his playing ‒ it can’t help but fill you with so much joy.
~Jimmy Page

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
~Bono

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~HDBeatles: The Beatles • HELP (3:03) so very, very young

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~Tedeschi Trucks Band & Leon Russell: With A Little Help From My Friends (8:56) different take on a classic

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~the rockabillie: Little Richard • The Girl Can’t Help It (2:31) in essence, a Jayne Mansfield video

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~NevermoreStranger: Stevie Wonder • Heaven Help Us All (3:34) he seems to mean everyone

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~Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine: The Four Tops • I Can’t Help Myself (2:51) oldies being the operative word

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~krzysiek boor: Connie Francis & Hank Williams • Please Help Me I’m Falling (2:34) a nature video serving as love interest

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~JK Jones: Joni Mitchell • Help Me (3:33) intimate concert setting

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~Michael Bublé: Help Me Make It Through The Night, ft. Loren Allred (3:33) ends differently

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~Rise Against: Help Is On The Way (4:18) disaster, survival, the fading of a promise

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~janeblinky: The Beach Boys • Help Me Rhonda (3:16) early Beach Boys (1965)

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~Hank Williams: I Can’t Help It, ft. Anita Carter (1:49) regret knows no single generation

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~Midnight Oil: Helps Me Helps You (2:22) rockin’ in the outback

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~CHE: There’ll Be Help Along the Way (3:47) unsophisticated feel-good

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~K-Z Cinema: Help Me (2:48) models posing to lyrics and a backbeat

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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving.
~Fred Rogers

When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and I was easy to love. People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It’s like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it.
~Miranda July

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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
~Belva Plain

Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.
~Ryan O’Neal

Helpless… like a man with a rumbling volcano in his pocket, trying to hold back the eruption with his naked hand.
~Irving Stone

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You always fall for the rascal or the guy who’s got a little bit of the devil in him. You can’t help it.
~Debbie Harry

Don’t fall in love with politicians, they’re all a disappointment. They can’t help it, they just are.
~Peggy Noonan

What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.
~Jennifer Niven

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Far too often, those living with abuse do feel there is no one to help. I have learned how vital it is to spread the word about the help that is available. ~Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
~Euripides

You don’t walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
~Hillary Clinton

For me personally, I don’t go onto Twitter or Facebook, my hubby helps me out because sometimes I’m concerned that I’ll see something that will upset me, and I don’t have a way to work it out with that person.
~Bryce Dallas Howard

Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it’s joyful. And joyous. I don’t care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It’s just about people, in some way, saying to each other, ‘I commit to you. I will help you in this life.’
~James McAvoy

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other’s faults.
~Richard Armour

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.
~Leonid Andreyev

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.
~Josh Billings

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After River was born, I remember being in the bedroom by myself, overwhelmed because he wasn’t latching well, and I yelled, ‘Dave, I need help! Can you get in here?’ Suddenly my husband, my mom, and my in-laws were all in the doorway. I just melted into tears. It really does take a village.
~Daniela Ruah

I went very close to the edge, but it’s nice to have been strong enough to get through it. I’m lucky I had family, a good husband, and my mom. People like that help balance you. When you’re feeling down and bad, it’s the people that love you who kind of sort your head out for you.
~Dolores O’Riordan

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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
~Erich Fromm

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn’t about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that’s when I started to relax.
~Snoop Dogg

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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
~Buffalo Bill

Circus is what real life should be like. It’s sincerity, feeling, emotions. All real. There are no lies in circus. There are artists working together to give a smile. It’s a world where people help one another. It’s the only show where a family, everyone from children to their grandmothers, can sit together and all be entertained by the same thing.
~Princess Stephanie of Monaco

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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself ‒ and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to ‒ letting a person be what he really is.
~Jim Morrison

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
~Solon

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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
~Elizabeth Bowen

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
~Charlie Chaplin

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My inner strength comes from my friends. I have a very close group of friends and family, and we all help each other through our dark times.
~Kathy Bates

I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That’s part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a paradox, because you’re out there touring and traveling and going a million miles a minute, but the things that are keeping you steady and stable can be really hard to nurture when you’re going fast, and your relationships, which are the number one thing that help me through.
~Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls)

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.
~Rumi

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I always say, ‘if you can see her, you can be her.’ That’s why I like playing on the platform I’m on because it gives another young Black girl the opportunity to say, ‘if she can do it, so can I.’ I try to relay that and help them realize that you are the light that someone needs.
~A’ja Wilson (WNBA)

The girl I am now, this girl‒she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.
~Donna Freitas (scholar, author)

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
~Jeanette Winterson

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A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.
~James E Faust

Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as “misogynous.” In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies … there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women’s actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.
~Camille Paglia

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Encouragement to all women is ‒ let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
~Rose Schneiderman

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
~Susan B Anthony

Others have said it before me. If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate ‒ strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.
~Elizabeth Warren

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People’s perspectives need to be challenged, and if I’m able to help change people’s idea of what it means to be a female and play basketball, then, shoot, I want to by all means.
~Kelsey Plum (All-Star MVP ’22)

Mum was born in 1938 in Guyana and came to Britain at the end of the 60s. She settled in Tottenham, north London, and worked for London Transport and then as a home help, a care assistant and finally a local authority officer. Bringing up five children singlehandedly with little money can’t have been easy, but she did it with tremendous style.
~David Lammy

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I knew hundreds and hundreds of women like me, who had traveled in and out of prison in a revolving door. They needed support and help just like I had received. And it could make a difference, just like it had made a difference in my life. I wanted to see them come back to the community and have a chance at a different life, too.
~Susan Burton

I know in the movie it looks like my grandmother is condoning it, but she really wasn’t. But back in those days, men beat women. She was trying to tell me something without being judgmental, trying to help me understand that’s what men do.
~Michel’le

What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?
~Louisa May Alcott

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.
~Kevyn Aucoin

All I can do is seek the information that’ll make me stronger, that’ll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that’s something you never think about.
~Nate Parker

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As far as outlining is concerned, I don’t outline humor. I might right down a word or two to remind myself of a punch line I thought of, but the actual structure of a piece I really don’t. I don’t think it would really help me because for me the process is joke, joke, joke, joke.
~Dave Barry

I don’t think comedy is something you learn. I think it’s something that’s either there or it’s not. When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it’s funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.
~Jessica Walter

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can’t help. They can’t help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas ‒ ideas don’t have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.
~Ricky Gervais

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
~Allen Klein

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Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
~Terry Pratchett

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.
~Steven Wright

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
~W H Auden

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!’
~Demetri Martin

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said ‘Are you going to help?’ I said ‘No, six should be enough.’
~Les Dawson

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
~Hunter S Thompson

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
~Henny Youngman

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: ‘Can I help, sir?’ ‘No thanks,’ says the blind bloke. ‘Just looking.’
~Tommy Cooper

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
~Richard Lewis

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
~Allen Klein

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If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God’s courage and his help.
~Max Lucado

He nothing common did or mean / Upon that memorable scene: / But with his keener eye / The axe’s edge did try: / Nor called the gods with vulgar spite / To vindicate his helpless right, / But bowed his comely head, / Down as upon a bed.
~Andrew Marvell

I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don’t know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.
~Noah Cicero

Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.
~Lucian (Greek satirist)

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
~Carter Burwell

I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
~James Brown

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything ‒ all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure ‒ these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
~Steve Jobs

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There is no such thing as helplessness. It’s just another word for giving up.
~Jefferson Smith

When your will power is gone, you are helpless.
~El Debarge

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There’s nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It’s sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.
~Chuck Barris

If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
~Aung San Suu Kyi

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§ OtherWise

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
~John Webster

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
~Gerald Jampolsky

What’s fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.
~James Arthur

It might sound trite, but happiness is a decision not a destination, and my choices now are all based on whether not a particular action will get me closer to my goals. It’s something I’m quite ruthless about, and it helps me avoid the aforementioned wild goose chases!
~Suw Charman-Anderson

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Helping others is the key to happiness. People are so engrossed in their own lives that they can’t see that simple truth; it’s that easy. Helping others leads to one’s own happiness.
~Steven Karius

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
~Chinese Proverb

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal than to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.
~Lewis Carroll

Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.
~Todd Stocker

Being grateful, saying thank you, is just another way of reminding yourself that something good has just happened. It’s a help on the way to happiness.
~author unknown

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
~Norman B Rice

It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one’s hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

God didn’t make hands to do bad things, but for helping others.
~Mama Elyse

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
~Audrey Hepburn

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
~Saint Augustine

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me.
~Saint Teresa of Avila

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.
~Michelle Obama

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I have all bad days. I think I need help. I got an anger problem.
~YoungBoy Never Broke Again

These diseases, both alcoholism and addiction, much like bipolar or depression and different illnesses, are still not seen as real diseases. People shy away from seeking help because it’s viewed as being somewhat morally off the path, that they’ve lost their way.
~Jim Irsay

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.
~David Goggins

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You don’t know what it’s like to worry you’ll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they’re healthy and you’re not, because they’re kind and you’re this angry, frustrated… thing.
~Tracy Guzeman

Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn’t that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.
~Jesse Ventura

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, prostate cancer and breast cancer. Incorporate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, soy products and fish in your diet. Eat at home more with your family and friends.
~Dean Ornish

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
~Fran Drescher

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
~Hippocrates

In the first couple of years when you’re transitioning you don’t really fit into any gender, because you’re changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
~Candis Cayne

The five stages ‒ denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance ‒ are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.
~Amy Winehouse (alcohol poisoning, @ge 27)

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~Alexis Carrel

Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.
~Gerard Way

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Sometimes a change of scenery can help with tension.
~Stassi Schroeder

That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.
~Daniel Levitin

Going for a really long run, a bike ride, or cross-country skiing helps me get away from all the noise. I tell myself… If you’re having a crap day, go for a run. It makes a big difference.
~Lewis Hamilton

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
~Haruki Murakami

What you quickly realize once you commit to getting more sleep is it can increase your productivity, it can improve your mood. And that doesn’t just help you at work, but it helps you be the kind of person you want to be with your family and your friends and that’s ultimately what matters most.
~Vivek Murthy

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The girl I am now, this girl‒she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.
~Donna Freitas (scholar, author)

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
~Jeanette Winterson

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A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.
~James E Faust

Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as “misogynous.” In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies … there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women’s actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.
~Camille Paglia

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Encouragement to all women is ‒ let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
~Rose Schneiderman

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
~Susan B Anthony

Others have said it before me. If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate ‒ strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.
~Elizabeth Warren

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People’s perspectives need to be challenged, and if I’m able to help change people’s idea of what it means to be a female and play basketball, then, shoot, I want to by all means.
~Kelsey Plum (All-Star MVP ’22)

I always say, ‘if you can see her, you can be her.’ That’s why I like playing on the platform I’m on because it gives another young Black girl the opportunity to say, ‘if she can do it, so can I.’ I try to relay that and help them realize that you are the light that someone needs.
~A’ja Wilson (WNBA)

Mum was born in 1938 in Guyana and came to Britain at the end of the 60s. She settled in Tottenham, north London, and worked for London Transport and then as a home help, a care assistant and finally a local authority officer. Bringing up five children singlehandedly with little money can’t have been easy, but she did it with tremendous style.
~David Lammy

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I knew hundreds and hundreds of women like me, who had traveled in and out of prison in a revolving door. They needed support and help just like I had received. And it could make a difference, just like it had made a difference in my life. I wanted to see them come back to the community and have a chance at a different life, too.
~Susan Burton

I know in the movie it looks like my grandmother is condoning it, but she really wasn’t. But back in those days, men beat women. She was trying to tell me something without being judgmental, trying to help me understand that’s what men do.
~Michel’le

What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?
~Louisa May Alcott

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.
~Kevyn Aucoin

All I can do is seek the information that’ll make me stronger, that’ll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that’s something you never think about.
~Nate Parker

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@Writers Platform

No matter what you write, you actually can’t help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
~Catherynne M Valente

The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.
~Edward Gorey

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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
~Yehuda Berg

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.
~Amanda Gorman

I think of everything that I want to say and then I think of the way that I can say it most precisely. And this has to do with poetry too, to me, that poetry helps me focus on the details of language.
~Helen Frost

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I’m an imperfect person. I’ve let anger, jealousy, all the emotions, get the best of me. If I go into books, word by word, little by little, they help re-center and re-ground me and put me on the right path. Life is a journey.
~Keith Thurman

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
~Pablo Neruda

I’m confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.
~Jesse Ball

The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
~Alan Greenspan

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Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do.
~Dan Harmon

Looking back at my younger self, that I’m not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously to be a writer and what happened between now and then is that I continually threw myself in the way of those things that would help me become that, of doing and finding and learning from things that altered me along the way.
~Cheryl Strayed

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The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don’t feel the need to explain everything about the world to my reader. I’m not writing a history text on the Four Corners. I’m telling a story that’s set there. The setting belongs in the background for the most part, and it’s easy for fantasy authors to forget that. That’s one of the unfortunate parts of Tolkien’s legacy, in my opinion. Read the first hundred pages of the Fellowship of the Ring and you start to get pissed, “Shut up about the Shire’s museums! Isn’t the world supposed to be in peril or something?”
~Patrick Rothfuss

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you’re showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
~Bob Edwards (NPR)

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I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes help me quite a bit when I’m feeling at loose ends and not sure of what to work on next.
~Christine Sneed

I write in a bunch of different ways, but my favourite way is to walk around my neighbourhood at ridiculous hours, like 2am. I feel like the movement helps me clear my thoughts so I can just get all of the words out and type them onto my phone.
~Thomston

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough ‒ I wrote faster than I would write a letter ‒ two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
~Helen Hunt Jackson

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There is something of tragedy and a ‘comedy of eternal errors’ when we attempt to write great scripts of rescue when we are the ones in need of rescue.
~Craig D Lounsbrough

At this point in my life, I’m probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it’s gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.
~PJ Harvey

I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.
~Charlotte Bronte

Lord, help my poor soul.
~Edgar Allan Poe

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Exercise Prompt: help

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I have a skill set that often helps me get through hurtful moments or experiences. However, sometimes when the pain cuts really deep, my normal go-to exercises just won’t work.
~Nikki DeLoach (actor)

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
~Tupac Shakur

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In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.
~Iyanla Vanzant

Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. Prayer.
~Ole Hallesby

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Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
~Charles Stanley

Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
~Abu Bakr

Never doubt God’s desire or ability to help you.
~T B Joshua

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
~Vincent Van Gogh

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
~Daniel Goleman

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
~Wayne Dyer

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
~Ellen G White

The true follower of Christ will not ask, “If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?” Rather he will say, “This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!”
~Aiden Wilson Tozer

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As ever, the true address of the missionary is to the self-satisfaction of the sponsor and the donor, and not to the needs of the downtrodden. Helpless infants, abandoned derelicts, lepers and the terminally ill are the raw material for demonstrations of compassion.
~Christopher Hitchens

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.
~Roland Allen

I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to the reading market. It helps me stay a pastor first, because they have no agenda; they are not thinking: “This would this be a good book someday.” They’re thinking: “How this will help Bob and Suzy who are going through a tough marriage? What series can encourage them?” And so I really bow to their preference.
~Max Lucado

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I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.
~David Livingstone

Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.
~Francis of Assisi

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help. ~Bodhidharma

Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don’t demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.
~Russell M Nelson

The power of God is available to you today to help you do whatever you need to do and with a smile on your face!
~Joyce Meyer

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.
~Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

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Viewers all over the world, whatever medium you are using to view us, on Emmanuel TV, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, I command a new dream to come true, in Jesus’ name!
~T B Joshua

Christians have been trying to help Jesus build His Kingdom by striking a deal with the devil. Every effort to advance the Kingdom by means of the world’s schemes is a stumbling block to Christ and His cause. Pragmatism wants to find a way around any kind of pain or difficulty.
~John MacArthur

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.
~George Ade

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
~Voltaire

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Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I’ve compared myself to others. I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
~Lysa TerKeurst

Lord, when I feel that what I’m doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.
~Brennan Manning

Each of us was placed here for a special purpose. I believe that it is each person’s responsibility to determine what he or she can do to make the world a better place—and then go out and do it.
~Ross Perot

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Help me, Jesus. I know what I am.
~Kris Kristofferson (Why Me, Lord)

I haven’t killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.
~Clint Eastwood

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Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
~Ali ibn Abi Talib

With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.
~Henry B Eyring

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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
~Flannery O’Connor

I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I’m concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it’s okay!
~Penelope Cruz

Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.
~Mohammad Azharuddin

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
~Desmond Tutu

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We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
~Pope Francis

Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well.
~Margaret D Nadauld

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I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want.
~Gina Rodriguez

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
~Aeschylus

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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
~Sam Houston

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.
~Barack Obama

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If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.
~Pope Francis

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.
~Joyce Meyer

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Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.
~Pope Francis

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Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
~Wayne Dyer

When all the intelligence, morality, reverence, and simian cunning of man confronts a sphinx-like riddle of the indefinite like the Canadian winter, the man seems as helpless as a trapped mink and as lonely as a loon.
~Northrop Frye

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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
~Wendell Berry

There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
~Bjork

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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
~May Sarton

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
~May Sarton

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
~Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, won’t you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex.
Leo Buscaglia

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When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
~John Lennon

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.
~Wentworth Miller

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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
~Franz Kafka

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
~Swami Vivekananda

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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
~Viktor E Frankl

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.
~Nawal El Saadawi

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When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That’s a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
~Francis Collins

I think telepathy exists, and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.
~Brian Josephson

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.
~Jonathan Sacks

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Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge is required for generalities to be understood. They find it hard to grasp the concept of the meaning of their work, assuming this to be a debate that takes place at a lower level than the specialized discussions with their colleagues. When they do generalize, ‒ or “popularize” as it is usually called with a noticeable degree of contempt ‒ they tend to reveal a startling philosophical naiveté.
~Bryan Appleyard

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
~Robert B Laughlin (physicist, Nobel)

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When I can see someone that’s posting the way that they’re thinking about what’s happening in the world right now or even art that they’ve created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.
~Willow Smith

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance ‒ people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.
~Jason Calacanis

It’s fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
~Ethan Zuckerman

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One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.
~Jamie S Miller

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
~Bill Gates

Wearable technology will tell us how well we are sleeping and whether we need to exercise. Sensors in the street will help us avoid traffic jams and find parking. Telemedicine applications will allow physicians to treat patients who are hundreds of miles away.
~John T Chambers

One of the most exciting opportunities created by renewable energy technologies like solar is the ability to help the world’s poorest develop faster ‒ but more sustainably too.
~Ed Davey

Helpful is the new viral.
~Laura Fitton

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I am scared that if you make the technology work better, you help the NSA misuse it more. I’d be more worried about that than about autonomous killer robots.
~Geoffrey Hinton

Most notifications you get are because a machine is trying to get your attention. Those notifications aren’t built to help you live your life. They’re built to get your attention.
~Tristan Harris

I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.
~Paul Allen

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§ The Exercise:

abuzz

not a bird soaring overhead
but a bee among the branches
a bit of flitting in the light
a flight between the leaves
a matter of movement
and misplaced perspective
like love war and happenstance
’tis imagination helps
steps in
falsely filling in

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5s ‘n 7s

bastard son of sacred Rhyme
spent his dime on wasted time
poem-less poetaster
nyet lyric nor poetic
no luck, out of sync, knows it
no hope of help, send a rope
scale the well wall getting out

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promising premise to start
to be or not to be me
no-escape identity
head-on face reality
no help, at least two, three sides
anarchy, autocracy
people’s choice has the car keys

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whether right or left behind
high praise for strong direction
protection of elections
part of the party sign-up
juried vote, slated lineup
sure no help from history
reviving old prophesies

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dire is the danger
prime young whelps in need of help
dark discovery
stark the choice, just the one voice
house dawg, palace or prison

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stampedes of bad luck
carry genes for the future
no help but to ride

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
~author unknown

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
~Martin Luther King, Jr

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A person’s behaviour towards the helpless animals reveals his true character.
~Ranjana Sengupta

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
~Abraham Lincoln

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I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it and to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
~Prince Charles

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
~Edward VIII (abdicated in favor of Wallace Simpson)

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Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.
~Tu Youyou

It’s every lawyer’s dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
~Alan Dershowitz

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In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
~Robert A Heinlein

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today’s reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
~Gustav Heinemann

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I am a sociologist, God help me.
~John O’Neill

I cannot help it ‒ in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
~Alfred de Musset

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
~Sally Koch

No one has ever become poor by giving.
~Anne Frank

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I’m a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren’t as bad as they seem.
~Ronnie Wood

It’s far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
~Judith Martin

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If you want to help somebody, make sure you’re coming from a place of clarity and complete non-judgment; that way, you can begin to understand their journey, too.
~Mary Lambert

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it’s because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.
~Jessie Pavelka

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When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
~Norman Vincent Peale

If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else’s life.
Joel Osteen

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I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I’d love to be able to sleep. I’ll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord.
~Elvis Presley

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.
~Joe Cocker

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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
~Ian Mcewan

A change of scenery can help everything.
~Drew Pomeranz

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I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine.
~Michael Crawford

Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes. . . .
~Aime Cesair (poet, Martinique)

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As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
~Susan Sontag

Don’t hold on to the past; it won’t help in moving forward. Dare to dream big.
~Rajeev Suri

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I think the answer is we all need a little help, and the coffee’s a little help with everything — social, energy, don’t know what to do next, don’t know how to start my day, don’t know how to get through this afternoon, don’t know how to stay alert. We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.
~Jerry Seinfeld

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline ‒ with a little help from caffeine.
~Annie Dillard

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One lesson astronomy tells us is that we’re a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.
~Sandra Faber

In our obscurity ‒ in all this vastness ‒ there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
~Carl Sagan

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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
~Jean de La Fontaine

If I can stop one heart from breaking, / I shall not live in vain. / If I can ease one life the aching, / Or cool one pain, / Or help one fainting robin / Unto his nest again, / I shall not live in vain.
~Emily Dickinson

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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
~A C Benson

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
~Huston Smith

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A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. ‘I’m wrong’ are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude.
~Richard M DeVos

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
~Dave Pelzer

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Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that’s a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
~Rob Reiner

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
~Frederick Buechner

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I think people forget that it doesn’t take a big donation to help someone, just a lot of little donations.
~Hannah Teter

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
~Charlie Chaplin

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People’s ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can’t help it ‒ ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
~Sarah McLachlan

When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people’s brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.
~Gavin Extence

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given ‒ all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.
~Frederic William Maitland

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
~Oscar Wilde

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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
~Herman Melville

What defines someone as a ‘man’ should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him.
~Karamo Brown

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I want to help others smile and be kind as often as possible.
~Ainsley Harriott

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours.
~Zig Ziglar

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The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
~Philip Emeagwali

It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
~Garry Marshall

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Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
~A Boogie wit da Hoodie

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.
~John Travolta

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No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
~Susie Orbach

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
~Henry Rollins

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I can’t help it. I want to be a good Catholic, but I’m a hedonist.
~Chris Farley

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
~Saint Augustine

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Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?
~Jean Kerr

If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?
~Brandon Andress

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
~Plato

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain.
~Robert A Cook

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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
~Willie Nelson

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth.
~Sophocles

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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
~Jesse Jackson

Every single time you help somebody stand up, you are helping humanity rise.
~Steve Maraboli

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Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
~Colin Powell

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
~P T Barnum

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The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.
~Gordon B Hinckley

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
~Edmund Burke

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
~Dr Albert Schweitzer

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Remember that small acts of kindness are big acts of kindness to the helpless.
~Michael Robert Lawrence

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters ‒ because we never know which things might.
~Gloria Steinem

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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
~John Ruskin

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
~Lord Byron

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It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating ‒ on our taxes or on the football field.
~Dan Ariely

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.
~Gail Carson Levine

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The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can’t really help that.
~Melanie Martinez

I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.
~Keanu Reeves

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Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.
~Bernice Johnson Reagon

Try new things, step out of your comfort zone, take risks, do things in ways you’ve never done them before, ask for help, surround yourself with self-actualized people, become obsessed with the fact that you have one go-round on this planet as the you that is you, and realize how precious and important it is not to squander that.
~Jen Sincero

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