#despair

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. ↗

— David Mallet

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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. ↗

— Rollo May

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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. ↗

— Menander

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Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love? ↗

— Max Muller

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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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