Assisting Quotes

“There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like you, or you can stand up and be a leader for what is right. Always, remember this: People never remember the crowd; they remember the one person that had the courage to say and do what no one would do.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes; I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Chiron said the word assist as if meant slap upside the head with extreme prejudice.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We have to do for others more now than ever. That's what we had before, that's what we got left," she said.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants