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Helpfulness means trying to make life a little easier for other people. If we are paying attention, we notice when someone else is struggling –to open a door, to complete a task, or even to go through the dying process with grace and dignity. We move instinctively to ease the struggle – lending ourselves whether for a moment or a lifetime to serve their purpose.


If we look around us, we become aware how much of the substance and beauty people are able to create depends on helping hands. Like generosity, helping is a gift that gives to the giver. Sometimes we receive help in turn from those we assisted; even more often our helpfuness ripples through the world as other people spontaneously pay it forward.

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The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.

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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page Page 518
Published by Christian Science Publishing Society , Boston, USA , First published 1875, Copyright renewed 1934
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Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it.

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Good News Bible
Page Proverbs 3:27
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Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.

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Gurudeva Weekly Calendar
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The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state.

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Speech to National Prayer Breakfast
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/02/godless_watch_continued.cfm
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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

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What's God Got To Do With It?
by Tim Page
Page 51 ("The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child" 1877)
Published by Steerforth Press , Hanover, NH , 2005
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-God-Got-Ingersoll-Separation/dp/1586420968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224970457&sr=8-1
Contribution #2256


Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

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Virtues Reflection Cards
http://www.virtuesproject.com
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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Virtues Reflection Cards
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It is better to fail at doing something, than to succeed in doing nothing.

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heard it years ago
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

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Leo Buscaglia
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Viewed on May 1, 2008
Contribution #1267


To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

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Abraham Lincoln
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

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Charles Lamb
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Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

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Audrey Hepburn
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Viewed on May 1, 2008
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Power is the ability to do good things for others.

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Brooke Astor
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Viewed on May 1, 2008
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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Albert Schweitzer
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If you’re too busy to give your neighbor a helping hand, then you’re just too darned busy.

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Marie T. Freeman
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Viewed on May 1, 2008
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If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

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Chinese Proverb
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If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

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Bob Hope
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If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking him if there's anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it.

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E. W. Howe
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Viewed on April 14, 2008
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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John F. Kennedy
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To the world you may be just somebody,
but to somebody you may just be the world.

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Unknown
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

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Epicurus
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

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Dr. Loretta Scott
Viewed on April 7, 2008
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