Helping Yourself Quotes

“My depression is cyclical. When feeling down, I must remember each episode has a beginning, middle, and end.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“If Mike convinces a woman to date him because he is dominant, the resulting relationship will be entirely different than if he had inspired this same woman to date him by convincing her that, through dating him, she could improve herself (though such dynamics might be ameliorated through therapy).

One of the core reasons why people either end up in one bad relationship after another—or come to believe that all members of a certain gender have very constrained behavior patterns—is that they do not understand how different lures function (in male communities, this often manifests in the saying “AWALT,” which stands for “all women are like that”). These people do not realize that the lure they are using is creating those relationship dynamics and/or constrained behavior patterns.

Talking with individuals who say guys or girls always act like X or Y feels like talking to a fisherman who insists that all fish have whiskers. When you point out that all the lures in his tackle box are designed specifically to only catch catfish, he just turns and gives you a quizzical look saying, “what's your point?”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships

“If you cannot help, nothing can help you.”
― Meir Ezra

“In life some moments will arrive where no-one’s help can help you! In such moments, only your own help to yourself will take you out of darkness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You may think that some mysterious powers are helping you, but in fact those powers are your own power which mobilizes universe to help yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“He could hear Fr. Stephen’s voice. “Do not ask God to do for you what you can do for yourself.”
― William Edmund Barrett, A Woman in the House

“When you do something simple to someone else, not only this person benefits from your simple act but also there is another person who benefits also and that person is you. It is an indescribable feeling. Try to do a high five to someone in your way and you will experience that feeling yourself.”
― Isaac Nash, The Herok

“Remember that helping others doesn’t mean denying to help yourself.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year