Jodi Picoult Quotes

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives.

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.

Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

I'm on a mission to love, give as much as I can, and support people who make a difference.

I want people to know that on the other side of the world - and even in your own country or on your own street - there are people who need something that you can give them.

The happiest people are the most giving people

Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?

I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

I'm quite shocked and have been for quite a while as for the way people are treating each other. That's why I go out and I speak for the hungry, and if I see somebody needs a hug during the day, I'll go and give them a hug, and I think we should all use a little bit more of that.

I'm happy to help people.

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.

Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

Ask yourself this question every day: "How may I best serve the most people?"

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.