Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“To have despair is human...for we all have problems that at times burden us. To rise above your trials and tribulations, sadness,… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Grief is one big, gaping hole, isn’t it? It’s everywhere and all consuming. Some days you think you can’t go on because… — Marieke Nijkamp Copy Share Image
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows… — David Seabury Copy Share Image
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
“O Father, touch us with fresh faith that we might believe the incredible. The very pain of Christ that makes us despair… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity… — Caroline Blackwood Copy Share Image
Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
“Angels should never be exposed to the dire darkness of despair in the tunnel of cosmic nothingness, and although I never believed… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“There at the cross, we see all pain and darkness conquered in such a way that it is defeated forever. Not by… — Jocelyn Soriano 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
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time," said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody… — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
