“Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.” DespairOppositesSeriousness Author:Conrad Hyers
“On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion. More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy things. Just the opposite of cynicism and despair, his end is eternal life.” EndsHandsSpiritGrowsUnderstandingHolyDespairEternalOppositesSacredConstantHoly SpiritCompanionCynicismEternal LifeHoly Places Author:D. Todd Christofferson
“Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.” PeopleThinkingJoyDespairFlowRiversOppositesPainfulConnectedDenial Author:Eve Ensler
“Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.” IfsGovernmentKnownWiseCrimeDespairOppositesComplainingFoolishComplaintsPerilMessengersGrievanceOffendersPetitions Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.” KindEnoughProcessDespairOppositesCommodityOngoing Author:Sharon Salzberg
“know that without night there is no day; without lies, no truth;without despair,no hope. Beware above all of hate, but call to its opposite too. For all things have an opposite and, if you choose it, with will and care, you may turn one thing into its reflection.” IfsKnowsMayCareLyingNightHateTurnsOne ThingDespairReflectionAll ThingsOppositesYou ChooseNo Hope Author:David Clement-Davies
“He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had already been chosen for him, his only choice being whether or not to play his part with heart and courage. He ran because fate had placed him in a position of responsibility and he had accepted the burden. He ran because his self-respect required it. He ran because he loved his friends and this was the only thing he could do to end the madness that was killing and maiming them.” WorldLoveHeartEndsSelfPlayRunningAgeChoicesSidesResponsibilityFatePositionDespairOppositesMadnessKillingBurdenAcceptedChosenRanSelf RespectDivided Author:Karl Marlantes
“I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light: in other words, the exact opposite of the normal condition of life.” LightDarknessImagineConditionsDespairNormalOppositesSuicide Author:Julian Barnes
“What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.” PersonsHas BeensCountryLastsMovingCourageDespairCapacityOppositesDecadesAbsenceSensitiveSpiteOften IsMoving AheadSensitive Person Author:Rollo May