For many people, Christmas is indeed the most wonderful time of year. But the festive period can also bring its own unique… — Ellie Taylor Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair.… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending… — Clinton Presba Anderson Copy Share Image
“Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?" One child… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam,… — Oscar Peterson 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
... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart… — Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image