So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.

People don't help much.

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

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

You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

Do you think you help people because you are in love with them? Well, I’ve got news for you. You are never in love with anyone. You’re only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. Take a minute to think about that: You are never in love with anyone, you’re in love with your prejudiced idea of that person.

People don't help much.'
He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.

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?

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

Help,” he said, “is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly. “So it is,” he said, using an old homiletic transition, “that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed. It is like the auto-supply shop over town where they always say, ‘Sorry, we are just out of that part.

Help is strangely, something we want to do without, as if the very idea disturbs and blurs the boundaries of our individual endeavors, as if we cannot face how much we need in order to go on.

Other people can help you, but if you're not trying to understand yourself, nobody else can do it for you.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.