Assist Quotes

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You will hardly find wrong people at right places. Choose to be at the right places and you will find the right people who will inspire you to make it happen!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“To become a better you, remember to be grateful to people who have contributed to making you who you are today.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.”
― Dallin H. Oaks, Life's Lessons Learned: Personal Reflections

“May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather use your gift to help others find their own way to strength.”
― Anthony Liccione

“We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whoever perceives that robots and artificial intelligence are merely here to serve humanity, think again. With virtual domestic assistants and driverless cars just the latest in a growing list of applications, it is we humans who risk becoming dumbed down and ultimately subservient to machines.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

“Put down your stones.
Why are you breaking the window
when God has left the door wide open?
If you are afraid, lover,
follow me.
I will guide the way.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I don’t know why everyone
is still trying to find out
whether heaven and hell exist.
Why do we need more evidence?
They exist here on this very Earth.
Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasioun
overlooking the Damascene sights
with the wind carrying Qabbani’s
dulcet words all around you.
And hell is only four hours away
in Aleppo where children’s cries
drown out the explosions of mortar bombs
until they lose their voice,
their families, and their limbs.
Yes, hell certainly does exist
right now, at this moment,
as I pen this poem. And all we’re doing
to extinguish this hellfire
is sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.
Tell me: what exactly does that make
us? Are we any better than the
gatekeepers of hell?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“My borrowed power insists that negative situations, too, assist me on the path to greater becoming. It's never about the circumstance(s); these are surface level 'symptomatics'. How we deal with the energy it brings, however, is telling of how we choose to respond. There's no escaping Earth-School lessons. Embrace that it's still about your development, and not the illusion of fear's representative attempting to lead you astray. Be conscious and see free.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Throw your hands and pull up those in the valley to the hill. However, press your feet on the ground so hard that you don’t fall into the same valley together. Some people’s helping hands became their grave digging tools!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“There are no sides in suicide.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Locate the needs of the people and find out how best you can help them before bringing them to Christ”
― Sunday Adelaja

“My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and beams of steel and now and then the careful transfer of an injured friend to a bed of safety. The other purpose I consider superior, and that is to be, in all circumstances and forever, your headrest and cry pillow whereupon you may leave your heaviest burdens.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Lift up your two hands; remember one is for helping others while the other is for helping you. Give a helping hand to whoever needs help. I believe you need help too; give help to yourself!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with bringing the observatory into OSHA compliance by the upper management team that I reported to.”
― Steven Magee

“When the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) found out that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were going to visit the site to assist in bringing it into legal compliance, they freaked out! They insisted that the visit had to be canceled and the result was that I eventually became so sick from the toxic workplace environment that I had no option but to leave.”
― Steven Magee

“The military is not so much a job, it is more of a legally assisted suicide program.”
― Steven Magee

“One of the curious aspects of my invisible friend was they would assist me in writing books.”
― Steven Magee

“Lives are transformed in the solitude of those entirely unassuming moments where one life turns sufficiently away from itself in order to brush by another, and in the brushing it leaves that life forever better. And if I am privileged to have any legacy at all, let it be a million of these moments.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t wish to please men. Rather, I wish to help them. And more times than not, the process of genuinely helping them may not necessarily please them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The person next to you is probably doing the best they can. But if they’re not, try doing the best you can to help them do the best they can.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When I feel distress so deep,
I pray for God my strength to keep,
And if my struggles still persist,
The Lord’s mercy will always assist”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“Most people aren’t lazy; they just need a little push to get going.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“We sometimes rob someone of the opportunity to offer us something by asking them for that thing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana