“Despair makes victims sometimes victors.” SometimesDespairVictimDesperation Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.” IfsMindKindLittlesWarBodyHairDespairVictimPainterDeceptionDirtyNosesEarnestMind And BodyBruisedFranticRagged Author:Walter Keane
“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).” WorldLifeLooksLongHardJoyLostDarkMy OwnPerfectBehindsBrainWorstTaughtMoonSkillsDespairLong TimeDaughterRedWindowSeasonsDressesVictimFlamesGloriousMy DaughterYellowSpheresBedroomStrokesRebirthOutlinesColorlessCrescentCrescent Moon Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.” ThinkingWorldPersonsDoeEndsJobsNightLeftWeekMonthsGoes OnDespairOfficeDegreesMurderVictimEverydayUpsetGrievingInvestigationClosestSooner Or LaterEveryday LifeGet OverDetectivesHomicide Author:Steig Larsson
“The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.” GratitudeDespairVictimResentmentConnoisseur Book:Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening the Spirit in Everyday Life Source: Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening the Spirit in Everyday Life
“To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took for granted suddenly disappear, we have a very simple choice. We can either succumb to despair and assume the attitude of the put upon victim, powerless to change our fate, or we can decide to turn the tragedy into an opportunity.” RealTurnsChoicesOpportunitySimpleAttitudeOur LivesFatePlansDespairEssenceTragedyVictimAssumingSimplicityDisappearGrantedPowerlessSimplifyTook For Granted Author:Tony Clark
“Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.” EndsActionMistakeHeroCircumstancesDespairVictimActiveRememberedMaking MistakesApathyCynicismPassiveAntidoteVictims Of Circumstance Author:Bradley Whitford
“I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.” ChildrenLittlesStatesGovernmentFacesParentForgetDespairVictimAwfulNever ForgetBuriedFuneralAgonyColoradoJohn D RockefellerAwful Days Author:Ella Reeve Bloor
“For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .” ForceMemoriesWorstTerribleDespairVictimMentorPowerlessDementors Author:J. K. Rowling
“The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego-your need to posses and control-and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous-lar ge souled.” NeedsHardSpiritualProduceGratitudeEgoDespairVictimGenerousResentmentShellsAlchemyPosseConnoisseurElixirMagnanimous Author:Sam Keen