Five Truths about Fear Truth 1. The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow. Truth 2. The… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we… — Howard Cutler Copy Share Image
If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Years later, when I got to college, I learned about an important theory of psychology called Learned Helplessness, developed by Dr. Martin… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
“Thinking of the anguish of his final days and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Can a therapist make me not want to get pregnant? Can a therapist undo the trouble with my eggs, my hormones, and… — Monica Starkman Copy Share Image
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness… — Terry O'Quinn Copy Share Image
“It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Though possibly it–the answer–is simple: it is just low-life, some coldness in us all, some helplessness that causes us to misunderstand life… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Try to imagine the helplessness you might feel if it were you that was stuck in that spot, completely exhausted and in… — Kyle Rohrig Copy Share Image
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“The families of the missing are doubly burdened: first by the pain of their ordeal, and then by our expectations of them,… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way… — James Cook Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did.… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
