Paulo Coelho Quotes

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

From what I've been able to figure out, all of us are here together and we need one another. We must celebrate each other's differences. Learning to ask for help is as important as learning the value of helping other people. I believe all the people in my life have been there for a reason, and I hope I have been in theirs for a reason as well. It's taken me a while, but I feel truly blessed. After all is said and done, I love life, I love people, and I love being me.

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

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

Most people haven't figured out when you are of service to other people outside of just yourself, the doorway for opportunity and blessings come in a very very different way.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Try to love others and serve others and hopefully find those who love and serve you in return.

The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

Love each other or perish.

Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

It helps me when I help people.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.