People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.
When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.
The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.
Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.
Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.
If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.
If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.
I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help.
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.
When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an area of the brain called the insular, which has to do with empathy and altruism, that is vastly more activated than in non-meditators.
People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.
