“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People will help, they just want to check 'How good are you without them?'. Just Show Them.” — Prerak Trivedi Copy Share Image
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Learning beforehand that responding matters actually prevents learned helplessness” — Seligman Martin Copy Share Image
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a… — Ulrich Walter Copy Share Image
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without;… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally… — Steve Corbett Copy Share Image
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“Most of those who think their strength is gone and ask for help from others do not know that the strength that… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it,… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room. The… — John Passaro Copy Share Image
Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
It is the taste of helplessness when you see your beloved fading away like a dream and you cannot help him. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.” — Leo Frobenius Copy Share Image
