Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

Those who ask for help are often those who have failed to do something for themselves.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I’m not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.