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• Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Giving, Mind, Ease

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• I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Sad, Art, Pain

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• I am who I am and there’s nothing wrong with that. The days continue like they always have. They bring neither excessive desire nor despair. Nothing’s changed. Yet I’m overwhelmed with a sense of fulfillment. I’m right here. You’re over there. If I’m your savior, then you’re mine

  Ryohgo Narita

  Who I Am, Desire, Overwhelmed

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• To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

  Ted Koppel

  Courage, Giving, Bravery

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• Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

  Michael Gilbert

  Knowing, People, Sometimes

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• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Son, Loss

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• Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

  Charlie Pierce

  Optimistic, Optimism, Tough

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• My days are as long as despair can make them.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Long

  Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.155, Random House

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• Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Mean, Emotion, Range

  "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

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• You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Balance, Fine, Hope And Despair

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage

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• Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

  Martin Luther

  Political, Mountain, Stones

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• All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Dream, Reality, Blenders

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  Samuel Ullman

  Birthday, Confidence, Self

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

  Pierre Corneille

  Noble, Conquer, Valor

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• From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• Don't give up, cause despair sucks

  Rick Ridgeway

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Causes

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• Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Survival, Preparedness, Ill

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• Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

  Edward Abbey

  Games, Boredom, Hacking

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• The best medicine for despair is service.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Medicine

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• 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.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Fear, Simple

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• There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

  Robert Breault

  Worry, Purpose, Reason

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• Even in despair, man must laugh.

  Lin Yutang

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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• Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

  Janet Fitch

  Panic, Possibility, Worst

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Laughter, Giving Up

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.68, Macmillan

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• ‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Giving, Black, Hopeless

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