It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.
One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.
For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
Every disadvantage has its advantage.