We all like to feel....

.....as if we don't need anybody. We don't so much mind when others need us. Then, we have choice. We can generously bestow our assistance or decide that, under the circumstances, we feel it appropriate to hold back. The power is ours, and we like it that way. None of us like it as much when the power is in someone else's hands. 

But, just as you would never turn down a genuine, sincere, request from a deserving person, you need have no fear that anyone will reject the applications that life obliges you to make at times.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.  

(William Arthur Ward)