Frank A. Clark Quotes

It is okay to ask for help. I give help when others need it, and ask for help when I need it.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.

Come a crisis, we want other people.

It's always good to have other people who you can lean on and pick you up when you're down and vice versa.

I think this life is hard without assistance from others.

Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.

You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all.

You definitely feed off the people around you, and your man is one of the people you talk to the most. So you kind of help each other and keep each other strong. It's important.

The fun is having friends who help each other get free.

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.

I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.

At every step of the way, when I had trouble, there were people that came in, in my life that helped me. It's important to go seek help when you need it, and to give help when other people need it. And that is really more important than coming in with a gigantic brain into the astronaut program.

It's amazing when tragedy strikes, how strong you find that you are, and I'd seen other people go through horrible things. And I just thought, "Wow, I would be a complete mess," and then suddenly when it happens, you realize you had more strength than you knew and it helps you to get through.

People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

We're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities, I have great people lined up to help.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. It gave us purpose. Sometimes I would ask him for something that I did not even want, just to let him get it for me. We spent our days trying to help each other help each other. I would get his slippers. He would make my tea. I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat.

The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.

I do like to pop in and help my friends out when I can, or be a part of their projects.