“Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.”
William Hastie
“Taking each day as it comes simply means that you know what you would like to achieve the following day and not hoping for something to happen.”
James Charles Olifant
“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
“He who has never hoped can never despair”
George Bernard Shaw
“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”
Oscar Wilde
