At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling? — Anonymous 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
Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood. — Nancy Atherton Copy Share Image
“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.” — Leo Frobenius Copy Share Image
“Tears wet my eyes. I’m a surgeon. I like solving things. But how do I solve this?” — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions. — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation. — Randy Harrison 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
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer. — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most… — Stephen Bayley 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
I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
“A sensation of helplessness, as if it were utterly impossible to go on living. Painful waves beat relentlessly on my heart, as… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a… — John Green Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
“It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We've all felt a little incompetent, insufficient, overexposed, helpless, unlovable, terrified, defective, unfit and unsung at times. And deep down, for whatever… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to… — Beatrix of the Netherlands 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
“Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
“Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.” — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
Embrace happiness and you will never feel helplessness, haplessness and hopelessness. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“leadership had overcome its ever-inherent tendency for routine and its helplessness in unforeseen circumstances.” — Hermann Hoth Copy Share Image
