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'Lookon my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothingbesideremains. Round the decay
Of that colossalwreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and levelsandsstretchfaraway.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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If I could tell the worldjustonething
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worrycause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel

Inspirational Quotes Despair

When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman

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The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912

We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein

And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt

You have heard that it was said,
'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
- Saint Bartholomew

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken

Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes

Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus

NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad

I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me 'understand' something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura

The 'stories' we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or 'better' than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel

People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
'Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

The best comfort I could offer
was to just let her tell her story.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur

Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
is to try and express what we all feel.
Not to tell people how to feel.
Not as a preacher, not as a leader,
but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)

I am trying to own my own opinions
and offer what I know as an option,
just as I would present a tray of appetizers for my guests.
Here are several choices that I have created -
if one looks good you are welcome to take it.
In other words, I am training myself to say,
'May I tell you how it is for me?'
When I ask the question, it means waiting
for the invitation to share.
It also means being prepared for my friend to say,
'No.' They don't want to know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

(Jesus on Love)
You have heard that it was said,
'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.'
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39

I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver

It really does matter when we tell even the slightest untruth.
Even something as well intentioned as
telling someone their ill-finished
hair style looks wonderful will backfire -
certainly karmically, and usually practically.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is NOT 'Supposed to be Fair.'
Know that there is no single way that life is 'supposed' to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quotes Against Despair

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We believe whatever we want to believe.
- Demosthenes

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• “What should I tell them? If they don’t want to die remember to knock?”
  Michelle Pfeiffer - Louanne Johnson

• “- Whispers DiTullio: To tell you the truth, I'm a little concerned.
  - Frank Sheeran: [narrating] Whenever anybody says they're a little concerned, they're very concerned.
  - Whispers DiTullio: As a matter of fact, I'm really more than a little concerned.
  - Frank Sheeran: [narrating] And when they say they're more than a little concerned, they're...” (continue)(continue reading)
  - Whispers DiTullio
  Robert De Niro - Frank Sheeran

• “Those were not welcome days. We buried sons, brothers, mothers, fathers, fiancés. Clocks ticked, but time did not pass. The sun rose and the sun set, but the shadows remained. When once there was sound, now there was silence. What once was whole, now was shattered.”
  - Annie Cantrell

• “Most of these young girls today don't know their cooch from a hole in the wall. See, that's why I dress... and rest, cause love don't live here anymore.”
  - Jessie

• “- Quinn Harris: How do you want it?
  - Robin Monroe: Excuse me?
  - Quinn Harris: Do you want it sugar-coated, or right between the eyes?
  - Robin Monroe: You Pick.
  - Quinn Harris: We got no landing gear, so we can't take off. Lightning fried the radio, so we can't call for help. AirSea with try a rescue mission but without a beacon to hone in on...” (continue)(continue reading)
  Harrison Ford - Quinn Harris
  - Robin Monroe

• “There is no fuckin' ice cream in your fuckin' future.”
  - Otis

• “Life's a mess, Sara. It's... it's chaos personified.”
  - Eve

• “There's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed... because you know things can't get any worse.”
  Matthew Broderick - Clark Kellogg

• “This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have...” (continue)(continue reading)
  - Pvt. Train

• “- Sgt. Emil Foley: You can forget it! You're out!
  - Zack Mayo: Don't you do it! Don't! You... I got nowhere else to go! I got nowhere else to… I got nothin' else.”
  - Sgt. Emil Foley
  Richard Tiffany Gere - Zack Mayo

• “Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to breakbad.”
  Giancarlo Esposito

• “We try and hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope, everything is being destroyed.”
  - Anne Frank

• “- Cobby: How can things go so wrong? How is it possible? One man killed, two others plugged. I'm out 30 grand. We got a load of rocks we can't even peddle.
  - Dix Handley: Quit crying and get me some bourbon.”
  - Cobby
  - Dix Handley

• “I was so plumb wore out for awhile I didn't seem to believe in nothin' no more. But, now my clothes are startin' to dry and I'm beginnin' to believe again. I guess that's the way the Earth feels when she's wet. But, the Sun will start dryin' her out and she'll start callin' to me again, just the way Nona does sometimes.”
  - Sam Tucker

• “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!”
  - Don Birnam

• “First love is such sweet despair, Colin.”
  Dame Judi Dench - Dame Sybil Thorndike

• “- Sam Brenner: Are you OK?
  - Violet Van Patten: I'm sitting in my closet and drinking chardonnay from a sippy cup. Do I look ok?
  - Sam Brenner: I'm gonna say no.”
  Adam Sandler - Brenner
  Michelle Monaghan - Violet

• “How many times have you lost everything Jack?”
  Lena Olin - Bobby Duran

• “- Lavinia Meredith: It makes you sound desperate.
  - Anthony Meredith: Well, I am fucking desperate.”
  Natasha Wightman - Lavinia Meredith
  Tom Hollander - Anthony Meredith

• From the movie: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens

  “I've traveled too far and seen too much to ignore the despair in the galaxy. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force.”
  Max von Sydow - Lor San Tekka

• “I feel so tempted. I feel so tempted to despair. I'm afraid.”
  Andrew Garfield - Rodrigues

• “For the country's good we must be ruthless. We can't afford to be just. We'd have to rule by terror. You know what that is? Terror is nothing but despair.”
  - Robespierre

• “You wanna hit me? I would love it if you hit me! I'm married to a Jew, I've got nothing to lose!”
  Amy Poehler - Cricket Feldstein

• “In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human...” (continue)(continue reading)
  Giovanni Ribisi - Narrator

• From the movie: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

  “Things fall, things on earth. And what falls... is fallen.”
  Ben Affleck - Batman