“I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of hopelessness, of despair buried in the depths of poverty, violence, racism are more deadly than bullets. The gift of light, in our compassion, our listening, our works of love is the gift of life to ourselves.” LightFoundGivenVoiceLove IsSilenceCompassionPovertyViolenceListeningDespairRacismDepthWoundsHealBuriedBulletsHopelessnessGifts Of Life Author:Janice Mirikitani
“Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.” WarLightEyeGivenPersonalityDespairGloriousRemarkableDoomGloomDazzlingElijahFrodoDoom And Gloom Author:Ian Holm
“Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.” FeelsMomentsLightGrowsRichStageGoes OnDespairPerceptionSacredDepthSurfaceSupremeThis LifeCrushLightningGentlenessSummitMonotonousLife Goes OnEnigma Author:May Sarton
“Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to severe measures only in extreme cases, for fear lest the hardship they are already enduring in their state of captivity, joined to the strictness you might want to exercise in virtue of your authority, drive them to despair. . . . It is not light they need, but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.” WantNeedsWellsStatesUseWisdomLightMightCasesVirtueExampleExerciseDespairAuthorityMethodSlaveEndureExtremesGentlePriestsHardshipSevereMonkResortsMerchantsCaptivesGood ExamplesCaptivity Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653 Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.” WorldPhilosophyLightFacesPerspectiveOne DayDespairAll ThingsMereTechniqueRedemptionContemplatingShedStandpointReconstructionCrevice Author:Theodor Adorno
“I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.” LightDiesDarknessGrowingDyingDespairIllusionShadowHatredSymbolsFlamesBeastPoisonSparksInfinityLightningPerfumeThunderConsumedSuspendedRebornLight And ShadowContractingHatred And LoveThunder And Lightning Author:Emile M. Cioran
“I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are no bad books, no plastic, no insurance premiums, and of cours eno illness. Contrition does not exist, nor gnashing of teeth. No one howls as the first clod of earth hits the casket. The poor we no longer have with us. Our calm hearts strike only the hour, and God, as promised, proves to be mercy clothed in light.” FirstsHeartDoeBookLightEyeEarthHoursPoorProveDespairMercyMirrorsCalmIllnessStrikesTeethPlasticCatchingHowlCasketsContrition Author:Jane Kenyon
“Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.” WorldTryingLightSpiritualEvilDarkDespairSpiritual LifeLampsCursingMake Others Happy Author:Mata Amritanandamayi
“In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.” KnowsI CanLightReligionReligiousDespairLonelyShiningConfusionReach OutKnowing GodI Am Lonely Author:Van Morrison
“When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.” InspirationalLightInspirationMotivationalMotivationHopeVoiceImaginationCreativityDarknessInfluenceInspireDespairEncouragementInnovationIndividualityImpulseHopefulOriginalityMuseDesperationStimulusIngenuityMotivateCatalystBoostShineStimulationLightnessInventivenessIncitementLiftVoice Of WisdomIncentiveMotivating ForceGoadInnovativenessFillipImaginativenessSpur Author:Tim Fargo