Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The… — Herbert Lockyer Copy Share Image
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The early bats are tying the air, the heart, into knots. They fly on the wings of grief. The late butterfly follows… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you -- are you… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dreamy tosspots, they stand all afternoon in a 2nd Avenue bar looking at the sun-patterns under the L or their own faces… — Charles Jackson Copy Share Image
“Within days, perhaps hours, the discarded remnants of this last job would have been bleached of any trace of their origins, each… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“When I sit up I am greeted by the world. Level with the treetops I look down on sparrows swooping in and… — Daniel Hays Copy Share Image
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
![“Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.” quote by Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/339/arthur-helps-5833_chains_be-cheerful-and-grateful-for-the-good-th_1063388.png)
