“The illusion of control makes the helplessness seem more palatable. And when that illusion is taken away, I panic.” — Allie Brosh Copy Share Image
Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness. — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him… — Honore de Balzac 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
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. — Arnold Schwarzenegger 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
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
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
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that… — Gregory David Roberts 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
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
“Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next… — Les Parrott III 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
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
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness. — Herodotus 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
You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you! — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help. — Robert Kiyosaki 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
“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The juxtaposition of fear and helplessness, set up next to complete pleasure and eventual surrender” — Thomas Kitty 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
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness. — John Steinbeck 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
