If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt... It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Helping others ensures you will eventually receive help due to a natural law. Acts of kindness create a debt nature must repay.
- In plain terms
- Help others and you will be helped in time.
- What can you take from it?
- Kindness returns to you eventually.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do good without expecting return?
- Does help always come back?
Another view
Some acts of kindness may never be acknowledged.
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