“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
Woody Allen
“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
Rollo May
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”
George Eliot
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
H. G. Wells
“A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
Zig Ziglar
“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down”
Louis-Hector Berlioz
