"I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them."
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"A good teacher helps you explore the maximum."
"And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate."
"You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area."
"The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass."
"There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life."
"To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it"
"Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension."
"Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?""
"I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can't help it. I'm just a cliché of myself."
"When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help."
"The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand."
"It's empowering for women to have some tricks up their sleeve to help them look their best."
"You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down."
"You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself"
"A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up."
"Lord, help me to remember that there are many ways to rejoice in any kind of day you make for us."
"It really helps if you are doing something you love instead of something you are just spending a bunch of money on. You can become very discouraged if you're not involved in something genuine, something that you believe in, and are committed to."
"I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become."
"The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering."