"You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped."

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Source : Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.60, Penguin

Jojo Moyes

#Want Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”
“Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.”
“I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.”
“The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.”

Source : Jeremy Paxman (2001). “The English: A Portrait of a People”, p.128, The Overlook Press
“Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.273, Canongate Books
“Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars...”
“Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”

Source : Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”
“It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.”

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