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• Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Children, Pain

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.3, Routledge

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• If you feel helpless, go help someone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Helping, Feels, Ifs

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• When you feel helpless, help someone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Helping, Feels

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• Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

  Jean Kerr

  Coffee, Hands, Espresso

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• Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

  Paul Klee

  Birthday, Children, Artistic Ability

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.266, Univ of California Press

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• Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it.
  Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you are finite, weak and helpless. This is not true. You are not the body. You are not the senses. You are not the mind. These are all limited. You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Powerful, Space, Soul

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.331, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

  Brad Meltzer

  Hero, Ordinary, Shy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joyce Meyer

  Helping, Asks, Ifs

  Twitter post from May 23, 2012

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• After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.

  Harris L Coulter

  Baby, Eggs, Vaccines

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• You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Imagination, World, Slave

  "The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald".

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• It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

  Tertullian

  Kindness, Eye, Practice

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• [God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

  Hudson Taylor

  Gold, Want, Riches

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• It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Weak, Accepting

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.230, Penguin

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• It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hurt, Jobs, Heart

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• Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

  Eric Liddell

  Wrecks, May, Ruins

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• Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

  Rumi

  Love, Writing, Light

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• I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

  S.J. Watson

  Grief, Eye, Abandoned

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• Compassion
  is not helpless
  pity, but an
  awareness and
  determination
  that demands
  action.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Compassion, Demand

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• She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Wall, Doors, Desire

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• I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Order, Punishment

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.158, Tara Publishing

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• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Wonderful

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

  John Owen

  Done, Way, Spirit

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

  Frederick Buechner

  Wise, Prayer, Honesty

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• It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.

  Jay Haley

  Winning, Victory, Opponents

  Jay Haley (1969). “The power tactics of Jesus Christ, and other essays”

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