Why can’t we realize that it only weakens those we want to help when we do things for them that they should do for themselves?

We see the potential for good in others and gain hope that we can survive and rebuild.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

And maybe that’s why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are … capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.

On our worst days, we still look for something we’ve done toward recovery. Sometimes the best we can do is feel good about what we did not do.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

We Rise By Lifting Others

We comfort our physical bodies in hopes our souls will follow.

I believe that my handicap will only enhance my ability to help others. I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible.

we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

By strengthening our compassion, we give fuel to our courage and determination.

Feeling comes in aid
Of feeling, and diversity of strength
Attends us, if but once we have been strong.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.