For many people, Christmas is indeed the most wonderful time of year. But the festive period can also bring its own unique… — Ellie Taylor Copy Share Image
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake… — SebastiAn Copy Share Image
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Christianity, according… — Letters of St. Herman of Alaska Copy Share Image
Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf. But upon my word I sometimes have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness,… — Sinclair Ross Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
White-on-black shootings evoke America's history of racism and so carry an iconic payload of menace. Black-on-black shootings carry no such payload, although… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Because I was alone, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning…My emotions were similarly amplified: the highs were higher; the periods of… — Jon Krakaur Copy Share Image
“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on… — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
“It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart… — Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
