reaching out for help Quotes

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

Don't be afraid to speak up, because someone will be there for you.

If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building or blowing my brains out with a gun might stop the suffering. but something about spending a night with a knife in my hand did it. The next morning I called my friend Susan as the sun came up, begged her to help me. I don't think a woman in the whole history of my family had ever done that before, had ever sat in the middle of the road like that and said, in the middle of her life, "I cannot walk another step further--somebody has to help me.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self.

I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.

But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.

My message is, if you need help, ask for it.