“I had the feeling deep in my gut that there'd been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should have made, that… — Megan Crewe Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“Learned helplessness is a common cause of clinical depression in people who perceive they have no control over the outcomes of their… — Janae B. Weinhold Copy Share Image
If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the… — Peter Gallagher Copy Share Image
You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more,… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Do not hold a lazy faith. Miracles are not spontaneous events we must wait for helplessly. Miracles are an achievement—a breakthrough accomplished… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room. The… — John Passaro Copy Share Image
“Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought… — Michelle Cohen Corasanti Copy Share Image
“…and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“I learned that people won’t believe me when I say I need help, and so I stopped asking. I found passive or… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“What would any man do with a soggy girl who can't assert herself, who has a weak voice, and whose main personality… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Helplessness. If women were hope´s oldest companions, it was due to helplessness. Certainly women often exerciced dreadful power over a single hearth,… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Smart people admit unarmed helplessness is not only irresponsible, but, statistically, such carelessness is asking for trouble.” — Mark Walters Copy Share Image
I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Love at first sight'some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you… — Marshall Brickman Copy Share Image
Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Fuck this. Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“she saw her husband for the first time: she had married a child whose only talent was an air of engaging helplessness… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image