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• Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

  Martin Seligman

  Hope, Art, Limits

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Weakness, Attractiveness

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• Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Prayer, Casting, Relief

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• The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

  Pablo Casals

  Answers, Complicated

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• I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Compassion, Sometimes, Feels

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• Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

  Chuck Barris

  Effort, Feelings, Rotten

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• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Feet, Sound

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Would Be, Way, Impossible

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• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Funny, Fear, Civilization

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

  Martin Seligman

  Future, Hands, Causes

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

  Lech Walesa

  Feelings, Bitterness, Filled

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• Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.

  Ashraf Dehghani

  Reality, People, Inability

  "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

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• ...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Lonely, Giving Up, Loneliness

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• A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.

  E. M. Delafield

  Children, Ignorance, Imagination

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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• The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  Beatrix of the Netherlands

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Five Truths
  about
  Fear Truth
  1. The fear
  will never
  go away as
  long as I continue
  to grow. Truth 2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it. Truth 3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out… and do it. Truth 4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I’m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else. Truth 5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

  Susan Jeffers

  Feel Better, Pushing Through, Long

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• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Worship Service, Unselfish

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It’s not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don’t know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, People, Feelings

  "An Interview With Howard Zinn". Interview with Stefan Sirucek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2010.

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• Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Self, Development, Want

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• If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution."

  Randall Jarrell

  Men, Feelings, Tone

  "Poetry and the Age". Book by Randall Jarrell. Chapter: "The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 17, 1953.

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• Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Soul, Feelings

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• This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Feelings, Common

  Mahatma Gandhi (1924). “Young India: 1919-1922”

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• Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

  Warren Zevon

  Doctors, Scare, Stories

  "Warren Zevon Dies" by Andrew Dansby, in Rolling Stone, September 8, 2003.

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• There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kind, Conviction, Huge

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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