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“I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect. Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.”

“If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.”

Ifs Littles Made Self Play Hands Next Roles Demand Despair Perception Weakness Resources Blind Meetings Notion Defeat Determined Despise Doomed Urgency

Author:Joan Didion

“Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that American is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair -- because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work -- they never have.”

“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.”

Ifs World Looks Self Solitude Despair Fulfillment Not Alone Self Fulfillment

Author:Elie Wiesel

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.”

Knows Self Artist Hell Doubt Calling Despair Diets Rejection Isolation Contempt Humiliation Ridicule Duration Dining Self-doubt

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.”

Men Made Ideas Self Film Born Five Despair Ambition Survival Accounts Frustration Cents Ninety Bank Accounts Fattening

Author:Samuel Fuller

“The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.”

World Needs Self Sometimes Stories Space Trouble Despair Deeper Redemption Chests Openness Routes Hollow Clutch Dig Deep Small Spaces

Book:The Faraway Nearby

Source: The Faraway Nearby

“The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain. . . . But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.”

“Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.”

Self Life Is Grows Fear Mistake Despair Terror Dread Mockery

Author:David Seabury

“Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.”

Has Beens Art Self Faces Artist Effort Enemy Doubt Mankind Hero Despair Agony Persistent Self-doubt Prometheus Undaunted

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.”

Self Action Forget Results Pride Despair Obedience Righteousness Self Righteousness

Book:Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life

Source: Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life

“Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.”

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.”

People Self Action Joy Choices Force Growth Greater Tears Despair Mercy Apathy Select Stagnation

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.”

Firsts Believe Art Soul Self I Believe Differences Inspire Comfort Despair Art Is Distance Injustice My Soul Great Art Alienation Fellowship Reconcile

Author:Tilda Swinton

“The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair”

Self Law Lost Pride Despair Humble Remove Righteous Self Righteous

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .”

Self Despair Skins Bones Rooted Pale Glamour Childlike Sinister Auras Gum Admiring Chewing Carelessness Otherness Naivete Skin And Bones

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha).”

Thinking Art Self Philosophy Form Certain Courses Jesus Path Fine Despair Psychological Routes Highways Crucifixion Rendering Hegel Disillusion Vivisection Finesse Polemics Golgotha

Author:Kenny Smith

“Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.”

Inspirational I Can Two Self Fear Simple Habit Despair Anxiety Negative Defeat Pity Resolve Hopelessness Overcoming Fear Resignation Self Pity Anxiety And Fear

Author:Napoleon Hill

“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

Needs Writing Self Speak Language Rooms Silence Civilization Despair Heal Pity Self Pity

Author:Toni Morrison

“My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa “At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.”

“Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.”

Self Form Literature Sacrifice Despair Self Sacrifice Dissipation

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.”

Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.”

Love Self Self Love Despair Wounded Discouragement Knowing Who You Are

Author:Francois Fenelon

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