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Despair Quotes

Regarding Einstein: "[A] certain region in the structure of the whole situation was in reality not as clear to him as it should be, although it had hitherto been accepted without question by everyone, including himself… During this time he was often depressed, sometimes in despair, but driven by the strongest vectors.

~ Max Wertheimer Quotes from "Productive Thinking"

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Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. 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. On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

~ Martin Seligman Quotes from Learned Optimism; p. 48-50

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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 Quotes

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What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

~ Rollo May Quotes

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Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain. Two statements may be said concerning this individual. One is that he suffers from defects of spontaneity and individuality which may seem to be incurable. At the same time it may be said of him he does not differ essentially from the millions of the rest of us who walk upon this earth.

~ Erich Fromm Quotes

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He who learns must suffer and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop on the heart and in our own despair against our own will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

~ Aeschylus Quotes

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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

~ David McCullough Quotes from 1776

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Just as he had shown no signs of despair when prospects looked bleak, he now showed no elation in what he wrote or in his outward manner or comments.

~ David McCullough Quotes from 1776

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With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be “cool but determined” he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

~ David McCullough Quotes from 1776

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If we are to find our way across toubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

~ Marilyn Ferguson Quotes from The Aquarian Conspiracy

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