So it is that the helper who is open and resonant to the lives of others is himself the recipient of a variegated and expanded life experience. This is no small reward, that our inner world becomes enlivened and enriched by our relationships with so many different human beings in so many different life situations.
Helen Harris Perlman
Social work educator
When we look beneath the surface, beneath the impulsive evil deed, we see within our enemy-neighbor a measure of goodness and know that the viciousness and evilness of his acts are not quite representative of all that he is. We see him in a new light.
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
Civil rights leader
Mental health is not happiness. Mental health is knowing how to be unhappy.
Psychological adage