Megan McCafferty Quotes

I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.

You can't love someone unless they love you back.

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.

Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.

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

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

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

Love either finds equality or makes it.

Help the people in your network. And let them help you.

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

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.

Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

A real relationship is two-way.

Come through for others and they will come through for you.

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.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.