“In a nutshell, the Despair stage is not pretty. It is the stage where the survivor realizes careers have been lost because… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
The funny thing about a broken heart is that it's not fatal. Though you wish in vain that it were, life continues… — Tracy Winegar Copy Share Image
Out of despair, disappointment and pain comes determination, self love & the strength to stand in your own truth, doing your best… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Lights Out" I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight,… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
[The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Just then things weren't going so well in my life. My business was precariously perched on the brink of bankruptcy, my anemic… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“Again the dance hall, the money rhythm, the love that comes over the radio, the impersonal, wingless touch of the crowd. A… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain.… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
“The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“We all get in a funk sometimes. It doesn't mean you're failing, or ungrateful, or stupid, or lost. It means you're human.… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“Life's big questions are big in the sense that they are momentuous. However, contrary to appearances, they are not big in the… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
“They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and… — Patricia Christian Punches Copy Share Image
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“You can be strong and have moments of incredible despair, when everything feels like it’s collapsing in on you, and yes, when… — Alisha Rai 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
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
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