There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
“Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.” — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Embrace happiness and you will never feel helplessness, haplessness and hopelessness. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
“Tears wet my eyes. I’m a surgeon. I like solving things. But how do I solve this?” — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
What's worse than feeling sad? Feeling helpless, and by helpless, I mean that kind of helplessness which makes you feel worthless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it,… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally… — Steve Corbett Copy Share Image
My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
“Most of those who think their strength is gone and ask for help from others do not know that the strength that… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it…I suspect that deep inthe memory… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is… — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“Every day you feel like you can't control the forces affecting your fate-your job,the government,your addiction,your depression,your money. So you stage micro-revolts.… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight… — Josh Mitteldorf Copy Share Image
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Learned helplessness is a psychological reaction to repeated frustration and failure. Research shows that continual exposure to academic failure contributes to withdrawal,… — Jody Swarbrick Copy Share Image
“Her arms groped forward to guide her when her tears blocked her vision in darkness. Then she couldn't run any more. She… — Clare McNally Copy Share Image
