“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
How do you break what has already been broken? Mend what's been un-mended… Help what feels helpless and forgotten. — Jesse Burciaga Copy Share Image
“I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Be strong enough to stand on your own two feet, but wise enough to know when to ask for help.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
“The juxtaposition of fear and helplessness, set up next to complete pleasure and eventual surrender” — Thomas Kitty Copy Share Image
“There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Even though it be true that the conception of God is absolute help, it is also the only help which is absolutely… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Lorenz’s concept of learned helplessness: how people believed that there was nothing they could do to help themselves even when opportunities for… — R.D. Brady Copy Share Image
Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“God helps those who help themselves' is common sense, 'God helps those who cannot help themselves' is sound theology, and 'God helps… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
By prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible. — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I can't afford it' shut down your brain. it didn't have to think anymore. besides, it also brings up sadness. a helplessness… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to… — Theodore Millon Copy Share Image
“Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The sentiment that one "should have done something more" reflects, it seems to me, an underlying wish to control the uncontrollable. After… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground… — Peter Gay 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
“Every day you feel like you can't control the forces affecting your fate-your job,the government,your addiction,your depression,your money. So you stage micro-revolts.… — David McRaney 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
“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.” — Tarjei Vesaas Copy Share Image
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. — Alphonse de Lamartine 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
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.” — Leo Frobenius Copy Share Image
