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Letter "D" » despair
«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.»
Author: Henri Nouwen
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Friendship
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«To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing»
«When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.»
Author: Wendell Berry
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«To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
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«We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings»
«The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
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«What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.»
«Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Kindness
| Keywords:
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«She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
History,
Time,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
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