BUT YOU ARE SPIRIT. PULL YOURSELF OUT OF DIFFICULTIES BY YOURSELF! SAVE YOURSELF BY YOURSELF!

There is no help for man. None ever was, none is, and none will be. Why should there be? Are you not men and women? Are the lords of the earth to be helped by others? Are you not ashamed? You will be helped when you are reduced to dust. But you are spirit. Pull yourself out of difficulties by yourself! Save yourself by yourself! There is none to help you -- never was. To think that there is, is sweet delusion. It comes to no good.

- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Lectures And Discourses/Is Vedanta The Future Religion?
 (Delivered in San Francisco on April 8, 1900)