We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness. — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood. — Nancy Atherton Copy Share Image
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
What's worse than feeling sad? Feeling helpless, and by helpless, I mean that kind of helplessness which makes you feel worthless. — Anonymous 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
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
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
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind… — Abhinav .M Copy Share Image
My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it…I suspect that deep inthe memory… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is… — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes.… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So . .… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication.… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the… — Mia Farrow Copy Share Image
Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight… — Josh Mitteldorf Copy Share Image
“Her arms groped forward to guide her when her tears blocked her vision in darkness. Then she couldn't run any more. She… — Clare McNally Copy Share Image
“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Americans across our country are feeling a sense of helplessness, of uncertainty and of fear. These feelings are understandable and they are… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
“The real God...will give us more than we can handle just to show us that only he can handle things.” — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
“The juxtaposition of fear and helplessness, set up next to complete pleasure and eventual surrender” — Thomas Kitty Copy Share Image
Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer. — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
“The anger welled inside me, with no where to go. I could feel it eating away at me. I knew if i… — Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
“What I remembered about the man then was how helpless he'd seemed, and how you could tell that helplessness had made him… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
