Quotes About Rescuers

#1. Foreseeing the needs of His children, a loving Heavenly Father placed directions and rescuers along their way. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to make safe passage possible and visible.

Henry B. Eyring

#2. To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

Henrietta Szold

#3. Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Octavia Butler

#4. I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers.

Elayne Boosler

#5. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by "society".

Thomas Sowell

#6. When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

Steven Kotler

#7. Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#8. It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

David Platt

#9. The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

James Hollis

#10. Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.

Allison Anders

#11. Many people stimulate that good serotonin feeling by trying to rescue others. Feeling like a hero is a reliable way to stimulate your serotonin. But the good feeling soon passes and you have to rescue again. Sometimes rescuers reward bad behavior in others because they are so eager to rescue.

Loretta Graziano Breuning

#12. There is not enough money, not enough staff and volunteers in the world, to support a permanent population of rescuers and victims.

Robert Watson

#13. Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

Alexander Woollcott

#14. There is a planet in the Solar System where the people are so stupid they didn't catch on for a million years that there was another half to their planet. - Kilgore Trout

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Albert Camus

#16. I knew I needed Aubrey. I needed her in the worst way possible. I was selfish and frantic, and I honestly didn't care if I took her to hell with me because she would make the trip the sweetest thing I had ever experienced.
She was mine.
And I'd never let her go.

A Meredith Walters

#17. Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. The past doesn't equal the future.
All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,
know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,
even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available

Tony Robbins

#19. It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. The only healthy marriages that survive are the ones where two people became best friends and learned how to rescue one another, over and over again.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. I hoped the hunter would come. I imagined him pushing through the thickets in the foothills. I've thought of him like that often since, as if he's still out there, game in his sights, intending to check on me on his return.

China Mieville

#23. Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hosea Ballou

#24. If you ever feel the person in your life needs rescuing, particularly from him or herself - beware. Codependency is rearing its head again.

David Stafford

#25. Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

John Scalzi

#26. One of the easiest things for a rescuer to do is to love people without a soul because we genuinely believe that our love can fill the void inside them. Unfortunately, it drains us of our own love. The love of self.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. Live for others and love unconditionally to prove it.
People will never forget how you touch their heart with your love.

Debasish Mridha

#28. The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.

Bruce Chatwin