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“Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.”

May Two Joy Sides Wonder Promise Despair Capacity Coins Spinning Restoration Two Sides

Book:Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

“My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.”

Ifs Knows Years Believe Important Hard Might Found Grief Sadness Promise Despair Lifetime Terror Heavy Companion Rooted Parting Enchantment Lurking Believe In Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.”

Promise Despair Dinner I Promise Compatible

Book:Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

Hope Failing Failure Fit Promise Despair Expectations Keeping Promises Kept Promises

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.”

Ifs Youth Broken Promise Despair Leaving Passing Passings Deceived Passing By

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)