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No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.
Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more despair.
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.
Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.