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
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
“In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really,… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. — B. H. Liddell Hart 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
I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know… — Divya Dutta 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
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
“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
“Finally she lets herself think about how it feels: to be so frightened that you almost can't breathe to speed so fast… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a… — Francisco Goldman 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
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
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude… — Charlie Chaplin 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
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
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
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
People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. — Martin Seligman 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
Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of… — U.G. Krishnamurti 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
