It’s the mights and maybes of our lives that keep us awake at night. Maybe I should accept the new position. Which schooling choice is best for my kids? How can I support my aging parents? What might happen if I choose wrong?
“Despondency is the impossibility to see anything good or positive; it is the reduction of everything to negativism and pessimism. [. . .] Despondency is the suicide of the soul because when man is possessed by it, he is absolutely unable to see the light and desire it.”
― Time and Despondency: Regaining the Present in Faith and Life
― Time and Despondency: Regaining the Present in Faith and Life
“رجل فاضل من يجده؟ يرى قوة المرأة فلا يهتز عرشه بل يفرح، ويرى ضعفها فيزداد احترامه لها ويعانق إنسانيته فيها.”
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