The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life, We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are… — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image
“DISTRACTED with care For Phillis the fair, Since nothing could move her, Poor Damon, her lover, Resolves in despair No longer to… — William Walsh Copy Share Image
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“At the top of the page I wrote my full name [...] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships. We… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I, rather than he, had brought this about, and my despair was extreme. For now that I… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
At some point I just acknowledged, at least to myself, that I had a great deal of respect for people of faith.… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift… — Ryukishi07 Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I had seen that errible look on a man's face before, on the faces of those being dragged to the gallows. Some… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
“I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the shout came, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“We have reached a stage in evolution which is not the final stage. We must pass through it quickly, for if we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read,… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“When I see those sad, abused and neglected animals on those commercials I feel despair for the human race. Too many people… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“September 25 Why must I go about mourning? (Psalm 42:9) Dear believer, can you answer the above question? Can you find any… — L.B.E. Cowman Copy Share Image
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the foundation of all there lay only a wildly seething power… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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