Helplessness Quotes - Page 9

• Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of failure. Sometimes they act bold, to counteract their imperious yearnings to remain children. They are impulsive, impetuous, moody, disagreeable, overdemanding, underappreciative. If you don't understand them, remember, they don't understand themselves most of the time.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Feelings, May

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• All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

  John Green

  Men, May, Rich

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• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Mother, Children

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.96, Rowman & Littlefield

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• For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

  Alan Redpath

  Order, Feet, May

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• I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

  Randy Harrison

  Character, Feelings, Isolation

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• If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Hands, Inner Peace

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• Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

  Martin Seligman

  Spiritual, Thinking, Years

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.30, Vintage

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• Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is not lacking, that He is in need of no thing, that He is infinitely and gloriously wealthy, that He can give to, He can bless and He can answer without the need of help from anyone or anything else. And it also shows that we are in desperate need of that kind of sufficiency.

  Matt Chandler

  Prayer, Men, Two

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• And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Determination, Husband, Gun

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• life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Life, Law, Lessons

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.17, Knopf

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• We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Emotional, Purpose, Excess

  "An Ecology of Love" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July, 21, 2012.

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