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Why Helping Others Makes You A Better Person

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Why Helping Others Makes You A Better Person

Why Helping Others Makes You A Better Person

The best people in this world are the ones who uplift others, help them in any way possible, and encourage them to succeed. Because the act is so positive in nature, it ends up making the person doing the task much happier and satisfied with life. We are social beings, which means that we need to be equally concerned with other people’s needs and hardships as well. If we remain aloof, then we are most likely to feel depressed ourselves.

The Benefits Of Helping Others

Showing compassion and understanding towards other people around you ultimately works in your favor because you end up connecting with them on a deeper level. With more understanding comes greater friendship, and therefore you will have more people around you who will love and adore you. This is a selfless act that makes the helper feel good about themselves and increase positive energy around them. It emotionally uplifts a person in ways that can never be achieved with fame or money. It is for this reason that so many celebrities take part in numerous charity events and causes.

Additionally, helping others helps you give a renewed sense of purpose in life. You become more thankful and start appreciating the things that you are blessed with. when you are filled with gratitude, you stop obsessing about the things that you do not have in life and start investing more time into the things that are already present all around you.

Making This A Regular Habit

With so many benefits, helping others should become a regular habit. And the best part about this act is that you do not have to join a certain cause to help others, you can even do so in your daily life. For instance, if you encounter an elderly man struggling to take his groceries to the car, then you can offer a helping hand. The result of this great gesture will be that the man will appreciate and remember what you did for life, thereby incorporating positive feelings about you towards them.

Helping others does not take a lot of time out of your schedule, and you can definitely practice being nicer on a regular basis, even to those people that you do not like too much. Always remember that everyone is living a hard life, and it definitely pays to show a little kindness to everyone around you.

 

“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.” ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

A Selection of Volunteering & Friendship Quotes

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” ~ Helen Keller

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”  ~ Barack Obama

“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”  ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

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