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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Wisdom
God
Heart
Grace
Will
Drop
Own
Pain
Despair
Our
Must
He
Learns
Falls
Forget
Cannot
Against
Us
Who
Even
Suffer
Awful
Sleep
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Yehuda Berg
Hurt
Communication
Humanity
Humble
Words
Power
Encouragement
Energy
Humiliate
Despair
Ability
Powerful
Powerful Force
Most
Heal
Most Powerful
Force
Hinder
Available
Use
Choose
Help
Using
Harm
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
C. S. Lewis
Loneliness
You
Yourself
Christ
Will
Hatred
Long
Rage
Despair
Else
Ruin
Everything
Everything Else
Run
Find
Only
Thrown
Long Run
Look
Him
Decay
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
Friendship
Grief
Healing
Confusion
Not Knowing
Despair
Cares
Bereavement
Stay
Silent
Hour
Knowing
Friend
Curing
Us
Moment
Who
Tolerate
Who Cares
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis
Truth
You
Will
Thinking
Despair
Find
Only
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Look
Comfort
End
Begin
Get
May
Soap
In The End
Either
Soft
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul II
People
Song
Despair
Our
Abandon
Easter
Hallelujah
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
Rick Warren
Life
Journey
Ups And Downs
Transformation
Despair
Valleys
Life Happens
Discovery
Ups
Happens
Process
Deep
Moments
Downs
Tons
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
Future
Time
Bicycle
Every
Despair
Every Time
I See
See
Adult
Longer
Human
Race
Human Race
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton
Love
Hope
Change
Anger
Love Is
World
Fear
Better
Change The World
Despair
Hopeful
Friends
Optimism
Optimistic
Than
Loving
Us
Let Us
Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
Mark Goulston
Alone
Anger
Disappointment
Frustration
Fear
Despair
Panic
Worse
Rapid
Rapidly
Discouragement
Being
Being Alone
Turn
Even
Even Worse
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Myself
Lose
Action
Despair
Must
Wither
Lest
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Robert Frank
Hope
Me
Photography
Black
Black And White
White
Despair
Colors
Alternatives
Subjected
Forever
Which
Mankind
Symbolize
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.
Erwin McManus
Time
Loneliness
Me
Suffering
Insanity
Edge
Skin
Live
Despair
Easier
Bubble
Weight
Feel
Always
Getting
Human
Anything
Realize
Human Suffering
Right
There is no love of life without despair of life.
Albert Camus
Life
Love
Despair
No Love
Without
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Albert Camus
Love
You
Random
Fall
Despair
Alibi
Only
Feel
Provide
Going
Anyway
Necessary
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Work
Moving On
You
Despair
Never
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Happiness
Needs
Joy
Spring
Flower
Despair
Security
Like
Cliffs
Even
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Samuel Ullman
Hope
You
Age
Old
Fears
Young
Despair
Self-Confidence
Your
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
God
Humble
Pride
Before
Despair
Approach
Ourselves
Without
Whom
Jesus
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
Hillary Clinton
Hope
Change
Darkest
Before
Gathering
Despair
Resurrection
Feels
Looks
Fever
Often
Senses
Breaks
Midst
Apathy
Momentum
Night
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
Raymond Williams
Hope
Radical
Despair
Possible
Rather
Make
Truly
Than
Convincing
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin
Mind
Despair
Indifference
Narcotic
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Cesar Chavez
Strength
Live
Despair
Our
Draw
Shall
Forced
Been
Very
Endure
Which
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Elie Wiesel
Moving On
Remember
Duty
Despair
Because
Reject
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Son
Father
Drive
Despair
Bear
Him
Equanimity
His
Loss
May
Inheritance
Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.
Russell M. Nelson
Life
Challenges
Trials
Every
Despair
Kind
Distress
Anguish
Detours
Consumed
Had
Almost
Likely
Dead
Times
Ends
Us
Each
Filled
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