“He doesn’t lock the door anymore—not out of courage, but quiet desperation. Each night, he lies there, hollowed and waiting, hoping a… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair. — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
“Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel… — Neal A. Maxwell 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
cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Have you ever felt happy and miserable at the same time?” I sighed. “Yes.” Hutch sat up. He threw the covers back… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
