Quote by Phillips Brooks
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. – Phillips Brooks

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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. – Phillips Brooks

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Goodness
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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. – Phillips Brooks

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Music
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Doing things for others always pays dividends… – Claude M. Bristol

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We all need each other. – Leo Buscaglia

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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. – Fred A. Allen

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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. – Edward de Bono

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