"I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right."
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"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else."
5
"If you are in a pit of stress or despair, don’t succumb to defeat. Don’t accept that difficult place as your fate. Even though God has allowed you to be there right now, he never intended for you to live there. Our God is bigger then whatever problem you are facing. The only way to see past the problem is to believe that he has not forgotten or abandoned you and that, at the exact time that he has ordained, he will reach down and pick you up."
6
"Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness."
5
"So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry."
4
"For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, just as we can also find reasons to proceed... I have chosen to side with faith and hope over doubt and despair."
3
"Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair? Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world."
6
"Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity."
6
"To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive"
6
"So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair."
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"Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true that, literally understood, one dies of this sickness, or that this sickness ends with bodily death. On the contrary, the torment of despair is precisely this, not to be able to die So it has much in common with the situation of the moribund when he lies and struggles with death, and cannot die. So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die -- yet not as though there were hope of life; no the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one’s hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die."
6
"I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared"
4
"..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry."
3
"When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs."
6
"No loss is big enough to lose hope for tommorrow."
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"But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days."
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"What, whom we put our hope in determines our stability!" EL"
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"Alan Mc Cluskey“Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope."
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"Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair."
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"The sky and the sun are always there. It's the clouds that come and go."
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