"The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves."

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Source : P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.86, Applewood Books

P. T. Barnum

#Charity Quotes #Helping Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”
“I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.”
“I felt like Jason Behr and I had such a unique chemistry. He just walked in and we started reading together, it was just there”
“A Grandmother is a safe haven.”

Source : Suzette Haden Elgin (2000). “The Grandmother Principles”
“Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.”
“I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.”
“And then a great thing in my life was going to India.”
“If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.”

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