There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, or take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens. —Elizabeth Berg More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love . . . is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. —Iris Murdoch More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is our mammalian conflict — what to give to the others, and what to keep for yourself. Treading that line, keeping the others in check, and being kept in check by them, is what we call morality. —Ian McEwan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit. —Karl Kraus More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An assumption deeply integral to capitalism . . . [is that there's] not enough to go around: not enough love, not enough time, not enough appointments at the food-stamps office, not enough food stamps, not enough money, not enough seats on the subway. It's pervasive. We learn mistrust of each other, bone deep: everything is skin off somebody's nose. —Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing. —Myrtle Reed More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Can I help you?" she inquired, in a manner that said she hoped she wouldn't have to. —Liza Cody More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, I think you have to take them back. —Jodi Picoult in Mercy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he's come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he's been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn't utter a word, but his smile says everything: I've missed you. —Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was angry all the time about the future I didn't want with people I didn't like. But I didn't know what I wanted—so what else was there to do? —Tracy Lynn in Rx More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email