Jodie Sweetin Quotes

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

Alone I can do nothing.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Whoever can, should.

Caring is tough.

Love is not just about love for your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, or wife. Love, for me, is the love for my work, family, and even friends. The emotion is very strong. It comes with a lot of responsibilities.

Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.

I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.

When you are the head of any philanthropy organization, what you learn is empathy, how to listen and be responsive to people's needs.

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

It is impossible to do anything for anyone.