The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials.… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our… — Dwan J. Young Copy Share Image
“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Only last Sunday, when poor wretches were gay—within the walls playing with children among the clipped trees and the statues in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“...there was one thing she would think about when she was high, one thing she would feel: that she was transparent, not… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We should learn to be patient with ourselves. Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses, we should strive to use good judgment in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“It was like looking in a mirror. The same flickering hope in Loo, the same desperate need to be loved, was right… — Hannah Tinti Copy Share Image
“You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
“Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The important thing is to not to be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past, and recognize that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Butterfly There is beauty both inside and outside of the cocoon that pushed you to grow Through darkness and dysfunction, depth and… — Christine Evangelou Copy Share Image
If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image