"We don't always help people by doing..." - Quote by Joyce Meyer
We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.
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More on Helping Others
“Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.”
“Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.”
“If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy.”
More on Responsibility
“The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.”
“The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.”
“I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.”