Helplessness Quotes - Page 4

• Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

  Martin Seligman

  Hope, Two, Style

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

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• Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).

  Susan Jeffers

  Pain, Real, Position Of Power

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• If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of those great fortunes. As soon as you realize your helplessness at the mercy of your fate, you are again in despair. Thus the hatred of fate can be generated not only by misfortunes, but also by great fortunes. Your hatred of fate is at the same time your hatred of your self. You hate your self for being so helpless under the crushing power of fate.

  T. K. Seung

  Crush, Hate, Blessed

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• Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Brother, Responsibility, Animal

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• Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Heart

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• Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Ideas, Feelings, Hopeless

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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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• In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fear, Loss, Force

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Maturity, Order, Years

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.

  Mary McCarthy

  Choices, Decision, Pay

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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• Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from it.

  Richard J. Foster

  Law, Feelings, Trying

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Teacher, Children, Player

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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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• You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Loss, Winning, Up To You

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.

  William Morley Punshon

  Guilt, Needs, Common Experience

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 189, 1895.

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• Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Stars, Fate, Power

  Irvin D. Yalom (1980). “Existential Psychotherapy”, p.127, Basic Books

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• At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Strength, Thinking, Time To Think

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• A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.

  Ole Hallesby

  Mother, Heart, Humble

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

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• A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Men, Self

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

  Jesse Jackson

  Groups, Youth, Gang

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• I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

  Georges Bataille

  Despair, Innocence, Blame

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

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• Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Self, Play

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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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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• I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

  Terry O'Quinn

  Character, Frustration, Thinking

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

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• I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Bully, Bidding

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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