The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.” — K.J. Wignall Copy Share Image
Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness. — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer. — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without;… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a… — Ulrich Walter Copy Share Image
Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next… — Les Parrott III Copy Share Image
Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So . .… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes.… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to… — Beatrix of the Netherlands Copy Share Image
“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
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