I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
Mitchell, David. Number9Dream. Random House, 2001.
If you have people who hate you, you will probably also have ones who will love you.
You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.
I am for people. I can't help it.
I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
My future is about the joy of loving those around me, of being with the people who are still here and not just mourning my loss.
At City, we don't just have successful people: we have great human beings who know that family is paramount.
When we say, 'We're here for you,' we mean it to this point - everything we do, everything we preach, every broadcast we come on, everywhere we minister, everything we say and do is prayed, engineered, designed to minister to the people.
Despite everything that's going on, people need love.
I love people.
I love to make people feel.
We should be with people who are in need.
The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.
I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.
Don't tear other people down. Lift people up.
I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.
If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.
As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.
What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?
The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.
There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.
A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.
Jamie chose that moment to almost fall down the stairs. Mae took his whole weight and grabbed the banister. Seb reached out but Jamie shied away, and Nick gave Jamie a push in the chest that was clearly intended to right him, but that nearly had him toppling over backward. Balance eventually restored to them all, Jamie gave Nick an approving look. "You are my friend," he told him. "Yeah, I am," said Nick. "But these stairs," Jamie said sadly. "They are not my friends.
Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?
We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.
I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.
David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist and screenwriter.