Gene Wolfe Quotes

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by helping others who are truly needy. We promise those who will render this kind of service that, in some measure, you will be healed of the loss of loved ones or the dread of being alone. The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else's life.

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much better you will feel.

If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

To help people who do not have any hope, helps you.

There's a formula Chris and I used all the time. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely. It makes me feel better when things are too hard for me.

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others .... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish. let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others.

When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be