Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person.

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.- Through the Gates of the Silver Key

May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and drained by drink, like Pasha, to be still fond of me and to respect me. My God,...

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty’s dead.

…you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to grow worse, but if you conquer despair, no deeper pit remains to trap you.

Temptation is not his (Satan’s) strongest weapon. Despair is.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me...

And much like the despairity of the woman who can never bear children, my dreams can never bear fruit. They are the mountains I can never climb.The hurdles I can never leap.The seas I can...

Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength.

Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair.

The manifestation of physical victory was first won spiritually. Prayer is our greatest weapon!

In the park which surrounded our house were the ruins of the former mansion of Brentwood, a much smaller and less important house than the solid Georgian edifice which we inhabited. The ruins were picturesque,...

A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.

Then, in spite of everything, he began to smile. So much of his existence in Everlost had been full of despair. Despair, and a fear of losing what he had. But Allie was not lost,...

Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?”One child said, “The misuse of power is the root of all evil?”Alice said, “Well….”Another child...

Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple...

I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that opened and closed at the stroking of a finger….And once, when I startled...

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

Despair wishes their hope diminishes.

Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day–the light of day, faint in her windowless...

For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul...

But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and the extreme response is suicide. Their self-destructive, self-loathing is so strong that they just...

I think he’s really throwing down the gauntlet. It’s a very bold move, … comes from despair and lack of hope.

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the...

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one’s own hands, nor one’s step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

You can actually create the life you want. It all depends on how daring you desire it.

It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer...

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems; Even the dearest that...

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

When you are sad, do not bow your head in despair, lift it up; you can see and fight better when your head is up!

Despair is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right to it. It is an end where breath and strength and will have...

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it...

And then I realized that the close people to my heart, are actually the ones who hurt me the most.

In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first...

Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. “I’ve only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing.I’m utterly lost. And you are needed here.” Zsadist tried to reach out, but...

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Si, mi cielo…

We have the keys to open the Heavens door; Bible reading and prayer.

You are capable of great deeds.