“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
Joan Baez
“Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.”
Arthur Henderson
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
Rollo May
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain”
Diane de Pointiers
