Helpless Quotes - Page 15

• Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Friendship, Happy Life, Giving

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• Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or emotional pain. Now notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. Usually the result is increased energy and power and a sense of natural flow. When you're at one with yourself, the world feels peaceful, exciting, and magical.

  Shakti Gawain

  Pain, Emotional, Peaceful

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

  Judith Viorst

  Baby, Jobs, Loss

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, Successful, Government

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Guilt

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.47

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• But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
  
  Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows;
  
  And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
  
  Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
  
  Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
  
  "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Writing, Heart

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 1

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• You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Government, Giving, Gossip

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• To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Self, Sick, Hazards

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.398, Vintage

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• He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Father, Race

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.219, Ravenio Books

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• As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Stupid, Two, Listening

  "Gestalt Theory Verbatim". Book by Frederick Salomon Perls, p. 33, 1969.

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• Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

  Willard Gaylin

  Animal, Men, Gestation Period

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• One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

  Charles Portis

  Struggle, Heart, Air

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• In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

  Alan Lightman

  Science, Cosmos, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage

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• No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

  Susie Orbach

  Trying, May, Likes

  "The Chetham music school trial shows therapy is crucial for sex abuse victims" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

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• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  Sam Shepard

  Thinking, Culture, Heritage

  "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard’s New Velocity". Interview with Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2010.

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• The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

  Terence Fisher

  Reflection, Glasses, Flames

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• Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Children, Going Away, Never Quit

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• The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

  Lou Reed

  Family, Girl, Mother

  Song: Endless Cycle, Album: New York

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• Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."

  Mary Pipher

  Peace, Prayer, Worry

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• I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

  Mindy Sterling

  Dad, Cancer, Care

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

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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• Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

  Criss Jami

  Unconditional Love, Helping Others, Giving

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

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• Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Strive, Admirer

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• Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

  Michael Bassey

  Girl, Children, Men

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• The helpless can't help the helpless.

  Tennessee Williams

  Weakness, Helping

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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