“One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly; 'Cheer up, things could be worse' So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse”
James C. Hagerty
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
C.S. Lewis
“When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.”
Oswald Chambers
“Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.”
Raymond Carver
“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
“I think that a great part of healing was I didn't sit and despair about 'woe is me. Why me? Why me?' I never had that time.”
Chris Carlisle
“He showed the way out of our despair, and gave us the emotional armor to get up every day and get on with our lives. He led by emotion, not just by words and actions.”
Jim Kelly
