{"quotes":[{"text":"Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it.","author":"Aspen Matis","tags":["helplessness","independence","trapped"],"id":2548,"author_id":"Aspen+Matis"},{"text":"I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["children","disgust","dying","helpless","helplessness","protection"],"id":7437,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35).","author":"Kate DiCamillo","tags":["agitation","anxiety","helplessness"],"id":8707,"author_id":"Kate+DiCamillo"},{"text":"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.","author":"H. Rider Haggard","tags":["consciousness","ego","helplessness","perception","thinking","thought"],"id":10695,"author_id":"H.+Rider+Haggard"},{"text":"I find a certain comfort,' confesses Marinus, 'in humanity's helplessness.","author":"David Mitchell","tags":["comfort","helplessness","humanity"],"id":13154,"author_id":"David+Mitchell"},{"text":"It's going to be a hard time; we can count on that. But with all the misery, what opportunities to show mercy and brotherly love in our land, which has sinned so greatly against love. And patience! For now is the time when the victors, in the blind triumph of their victory, are likely to make mistakes. But that's not our concern, for we shall only be the sufferers, not the agents of suffering. What a power for peace will lie in our own powerlessness if we can only glimpse in it the sign of grace!","author":"Margot Benary-Isbert","tags":["helplessness","peace","suffering","war"],"id":20274,"author_id":"Margot+Benary-Isbert"},{"text":"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["everything","frightening","helplessness","love","want"],"id":22718,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind motionless, were once innocuous mere threads.” -Mehul.M.","author":"Abhinav .M","tags":["anxiety","depression","emotions","expression","feelings","helplessness","inspirational","life","pain","phylosophy","pressure","psychology","stress","thought","time"],"id":28218,"author_id":"Abhinav+.M"},{"text":"It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.' -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["drunkenness","helplessness","weakness"],"id":31000,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.Book: stuff I think about.","author":"Sondra Faye","tags":["ass","feminist","helplessness","self-esteem","self-esteem-self-help-book","underdog","understanding-oneself-and-others"],"id":56854,"author_id":"Sondra+Faye"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}