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“I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.”

May Has Beens Two Can Do Ought Protect Prepared Burden Revolutionary Honour Be Prepared Bully Worms Helplessness Oppressors Bidding Facing Death

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.”

Ifs Helping Asks Helpless Helplessness

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.”

Thinking Way Mean Long Feelings Enemy Worst Available Helplessness Worst Enemy

Author:Mia Farrow

“If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.”

“People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.”

People Believe Causes Circumstances Good Things Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.”

Humans Heart May Inspiration Motivation Felt Love Is Emotion Principles Goes On Degrees Capable Infinite Rage Human Heart Helplessness

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire.”

Should I Can Enough Spiritual Joy Desire My Own Teach Darkness Greater Grace Depends Ought Intellectual Eternity Satisfied Appetite Spiritual Life Helplessness Life Teaches

Author:Thomas Merton

“One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.”

Helping Life Is Asks Helpless Defects Inability Shortcomings Helplessness Asking For Help

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.”

Persons Self Form Failing Blind Selfishness True Self Helplessness

Author:Anuj

“Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is not lacking, that He is in need of no thing, that He is infinitely and gloriously wealthy, that He can give to, He can bless and He can answer without the need of help from anyone or anything else. And it also shows that we are in desperate need of that kind of sufficiency.”

Men Needs Giving Kind Doe Two Helping Shows Prayer Answers Two Things Desperate Wealthy Bless Lacking Helplessness Sufficiency

Author:Matt Chandler

“Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.”

Ideas Feelings Seems Situation Hopeless Helplessness Prospects

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.”

Men Needs Self Mother Wish Environment Delusion Touching Helplessness Amiable Self Delusion

Book:In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.”

Groups Youth Reactions Gang Helplessness

Author:Jesse Jackson

“I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.”

People Illness Sickness Dislike Helplessness Greatest Fear

Book:Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

“Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.”

Heart Self Done Play Shows Poor Virtue Rich Theater Cruelty Innocence Abandoned Indulgence Helplessness Heartless Self Indulgence

Book:Except the Lord

Source: Except the Lord

“The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.”

Feels Moments Hands Mother Animal Wonder Watches Wife Theory Observation Curious Helplessness Reins Wife Mother

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.”

Thinking Way Facts Faces Culture Felt Violence Violent Get Away Heritage Continents Helpless Helplessness

Author:Sam Shepard

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