Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
Interpretation
Always be ready to offer help and to accept help from others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of both offering and receiving support in relationships. It encourages individuals to extend a helping hand to those in need, while also reminding them that accepting help from others is a sign of strength, not weakness. By fostering a spirit of cooperation and kindness, we can build stronger connections and communities.
In practice
Using this quote during a speech on community service at a local charity event.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
Be yourself and the right people will love you.
I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.
Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.
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