Quotes about helping yourself

71 Self Care Quotes to Help You to Take Care of Yourself

Self-care is one of those things that is essential but we often don't take enough time for (or feel we don't have the time for).

But taking care of yourself, your body, health and mental well-being is so important to not just feel better but also to perform better in the long run and to be able to help others better.

And to keep going and not give up until you reach your goals and dreams.

So I've put together a collection of the 71 best self care quotes I've found.

I hope they will help and inspire you to more consistently take some time for yourself and for what you deep down need.

Inspiring Self Care Quotes

“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”
Parker Palmer

“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren't more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”
Kristen Neff

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
Oprah

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”
Andrew Matthews

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
Sophia Loren

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
Roy T. Bennett

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”
Brené Brown

“Self-discipline is self-caring. ”
M. Scott Peck

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”
Stephen Covey

“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”
Brian Andreas

“How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em.”
Shel Silverstein

“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
Kim McMillen

“The challenge is not to be perfect — it is to be whole.”
Jane Fonda

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ”
Buddha

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” Dolly Parton

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
Shannon L. Alder

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell

“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.”
Christopher Germer

“Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.”
Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

“Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.”
Steve Maraboli

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
Bob Moawad

Take Time for Yourself Quotes

“It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.”
Diane Von Furstenberg

“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
Jean Shinoda Bolen

“If you feel “burnout” setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.”
Dalai Lama

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.”
Anna Taylor

“If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.”
Vironika Tugaleva

“Self-care is not a waste of time; self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.”
Jackie Viramontez

“To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.”
Jill Bolte Taylor

Self Care Quotes About Your Body, Stress and Relaxing

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
Anne Lamott

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
Sydney J. Harris

“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
Louise L. Hay

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
Louisa May Alcott

“If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.”
George Burns

“‘Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.”
William Shakespeare

“I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.”
Queen Latifah

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ”
Edward Stanley

“There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.”
Garson Kanin

“Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn’t last, but meditating every day does.”
Carrie-Anne Moss

“Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
Ovid

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Focus on Yourself First to Better Help Others Quotes

“Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you. ”
Karl Lagerfeld

“To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.”
Michelle Obama

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
Maya Angelou

“Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.”
Beau Taplin

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
André Gide

“Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others. ”
Chuang Tzu

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
Stacey Charter

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
Jack Kornfield

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
Rob Liano

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”
Eleanor Brownn

Quotes about the Importance of Loving Yourself

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
Maxwell Maltz

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
Brené Brown

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
Lao-Tzu

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
Charles Bukowski

“Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.”
Dan Coppersmith

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ”
Bell Hooks

“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
Denis Waitley

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
Barbara De Angelis

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Mark Twain

“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
Dan Pearce

”If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.”
Wayne Dyer

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
Robert Morley

30 Self-Care Quotes That Inspire Us

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Jan 29, 2020

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From day-to-day, stopping to take a minute for yourself is probably on the tippy end of your to-do list. You'll find yourself putting off moments of self care for later in the week, later in the month, and then finally realizing you have yet to enjoy a new book or listen to your favorite podcast in quite some time. But even the most successful people — thought leaders like, authors, and even our favorite stars — all take time to practice self care, and they've shared their thoughts on just how important it is to work on yourself.

Nearly any of the psychology experts represented in this gallery will tell you that, ironically, taking care of yourself is crucial in order to be fully present in other relationships. But talking yourself into carving time out in your schedule just for you can be hard when you feel like you have a million other things to do. People like Michelle Obama, Diane Von Furstenberg, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Oprah Winfrey (especially!) have shared at length how self care has helped them become better role models. Whether you're struggling to manage doing everything you love, or you're simply feeling like you're stretched too thin, listening to the wisdom of these iconic trailblazers will help you get back on track.

Many of these now-famous self care quotes and sayings will help remind you why it's so important. They'll allow you to realize your potential and the value that you bring to everything you do. Whether you're feeling exhausted, sad, or just plain guilty for wanting some time to yourself, these inspirational quotes are sure to help you find inner peace in an overwhelming world.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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Lucille Ball

Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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Oprah Winfrey

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

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William Shakespeare

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

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Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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Shel Silverstein

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em.

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Diane Von Furstenberg

It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

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Karl Lagerfeld

Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you.

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Sophia Loren

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

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Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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Jane Fonda

The challenge is not to be perfect — it is to be whole.

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Dalai Lama

... If you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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Maya Angelou

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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Jean Shinoda Bolen

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

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Anna Quindlen

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

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Anne Lamot

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

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Dolly Parton

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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Jack Kornfield

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

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Bell Hooks

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

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Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK)

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

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Louisa May Alcott

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.

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Wayne Dyer

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over, because there's nothing you can do about them. And why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

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Jill Bolte Taylor

To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.

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Michelle Obama

To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.

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Jada Pinkett Smith

Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.

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Ray Bradbury

Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

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Stephen Covey

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

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Mandy Hale

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.

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Charles Bukowski

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

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Help Quotes | Phrases and sayings about help

When you need support, you usually turn out to be of no use to anyone. But in reality, no one needs you all the time. You just notice it only when you need support.

One person is drowning in the water, a ship is approaching. They say to him: "Do you need help?" Him: "No thanks, God help." Then another ship: "Help you?" He: "God will help." Then he drowns and goes to heaven. He asks: “Lord, why didn’t you save me?” And God to him: “Fool! I sent you two ships!” nine0004

The pursuit of happiness

If you need a helping hand, it is always with you - your own.

- Audrey Hepburn.

He who did you good once is more willing to help you again than he whom you yourself have helped. B. Franklin

Before you call me for help, learn how to call to see how I'm doing.

Deep down, sages know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help other people.

When we do not like a person, we will find any reason to refuse to help him, and if we like him, we will always convince ourselves that he needs help. nine0004

You seek too much help from others. Can't you see that this help isn't real?

It is not enough to do no harm, one must help one's brothers.

It is better to be asked than thanked: the dependent are more useful than the kind ones.

We have the right to sometimes rely on another, but not to lean on him with all our weight.

Sometimes help comes from where you don't expect it at all

When a person is in despair, he only thinks about who will help him. And it is at this moment that it is very important to understand: you yourself are the person who can help you. The way out will appear only at the moment when you stop looking for help on the side. Until then, you look back instead of looking. nine0004

Angel de Coitiers

Those who are not afraid of risk are often helped by chance.

Stefan Zweig

If he continues to save you like this, then you look, what good, and will kill you.

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

There is no point in trying to help people who don't help themselves. A person cannot be forced to climb stairs if he himself does not want to climb.

— Isn't there anyone who can really help me? nine0002 - There is, probably. First of all, you yourself.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald "Tender is the Night"

Fear is nothing but deprivation of help from reason. Bible

I can help you, but only if you help yourself.

"Grimm"

A gentleman should not think about risk when a woman asks for help. (Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The King of Blackmail)

"There are people who are hurtful to help: the more they do for them, the less they tend to do for themselves" Jane Austen / Emma

If you can help a person - help, if you can't help - pray, if you don't know how to pray - think well of the person! And this will already be help, because bright thoughts are also weapons. .. Eastern wisdom

A person should do his job as if he had nowhere to look for help.
George Savile Halifax

Are you ill? Call for help first of all yourself!

There is no point in trying to help people who don't help themselves. A person cannot be forced to climb stairs if he himself does not want to climb. nine0004

Andrew Carnegie

I strongly advise you to rely only on yourself. But if they offer help, accept it. Jennifer Aniston

Do not expect help from strangers. Find strength in yourself and fight to the bitter end.

If you can help, help. If not, at least do no harm.

The Dalai Lama

We don't need help from friends so much as we need to know that we will get it. Democritus

As long as we strive to help people, we rarely meet with ingratitude. / Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Help a hundred times and it will be forgotten. Refuse at least once - they will remember forever.

Everything returns, and the pain caused by you, and the help provided by a kind hand.

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Help quotes.

Sayings, aphorisms and quotes about help.

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The greatest misfortune is to need the help of people worthy of our contempt.

• Unsur al-Maali Kay-Kavus

Life quotes, Help, Happiness and unhappiness

• Friedrich Schiller

Loyalty, Love, Help

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You can help the poor, but hardly the poor soul. nine0004

• Michel de Montaigne

Poverty, Soul, Wise Quotes, Help

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Help yourself and your friends will love you more.

• Jonathan Swift

, Friends and Friends, Assistance

people who do not listen to advice,

• Benjamin Franklin

Relations, Help, Help, Help, Help, Help Tips

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Help the oppressed and you will be safe from the oppressors, benefit those who are subject and you will not be harmed by those in power.

• Alisher Navoi

Safety, Harm, Help

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Good luck with your work!

• Seneca Lucius Annaeus

Life, Help, Happiness, Man

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In some minutes the soul comes to help the body and omnipotence. This is the only bird that protects its own cage. nine0004

• Hugo Victor Marie

Help, Birds, Body

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He who does not want to lift the fallen, let no one be afraid to fall, for when he will fall hand.

• Saadi

Life quotes, Mercy, Help, Humanity

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• Georg W. F. Hegel

Help

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The ideal person feels joy from doing good deeds to others, but he is ashamed to accept the good deeds of others.
Exalted natures do good, lower natures accept it.

• Aristotle

Kindness, Help, Joy, Man

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Stretching out your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist.

• Diogenes of Sinop

Friendship and Friends, Finger, Help, Hand

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We do not need the help of friends so much as the confidence that we will receive it.

• Democritus of Abdera

Friendship and Friends, Help

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The interlocutor's monologue is best interrupted with a completely meaningless question.

• Erich M. Remarque

Help, Truth

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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.

• Mohammed Ali

Life quotes, Help

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Hula is a very convenient thing; they attack with a single word, but they need entire pages to defend.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Protection, Help

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In dark times, peoples were best led with the help of religion, because in complete darkness the blind is the best guide: he distinguishes the road and paths better than the sighted. However, it is truly foolish, when it is daylight, to still use old blind men as guides.

• Heinrich Heine

God and Religion, Help, Blindness

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Oh, I know women! They are terribly fond of
Save from death the one who destroys them. nine0004

• Hugo Victor Marie

Love, Help, Salvation

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For a moral being there is no good without freedom, but this freedom is given not by the Sovereign, not by the Parliament with the help of God.

• Nikolay M. Karamzin

Help, Revolution

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There are situations in life that you can get out of only with a fair amount of recklessness. nine0004

• François de La Rochefoucauld

Recklessness, Help, Reflections

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Do not call for help at night - you will wake up the neighbors.

• Stanislav E. Lets

Help, Neighbors

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It is not enough to be a doctor, you must also be able to help.

• Bertolt Brecht

Doctors, Help

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It is better to become a victim of ingratitude than to refuse help to the unfortunate.

• Jean de La Bruyère

Life, Ingratitude, Help, Man

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her impossible.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Help, Luxury

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The doctor must remember that when turning to him, the patient is not waiting for discussions about the disease and explanations, but for help.

• Hippocrates

Doctors, Wise quotes, Help

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when both are drowning, then each thinks only of himself.

• Johnson Samuel

Help, Rescue

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It is not difficult to understand that war and conquest, on the one hand, and growing despotism, on the other, mutually help each other; that from a people consisting of slaves, one can take plenty of money and people in order to subjugate other peoples with their help; that war provides at the same time a pretext for new monetary exactions, and no less plausible pretext for constantly maintaining numerous armies in order to keep the people in fear. nine0004

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Army, Aid, Maintenance

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Coincidence keeps God anonymous.

• Albert Einstein

God, Help, Coincidence

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Charity is only when it is a sacrifice.

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