The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?
It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.
I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
The helpless can't help the helpless.
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. . . Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying. . . on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.
The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.
Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.
Republicans are obsessed with abortion. . . if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats?
Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but. . . Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house. " Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly. "Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house. " And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs. . . [they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.
Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the longcenturies falls upon our imperishable being, like water slow drippingon a diamond that it cannot wear, till they be born anew forgetful ofus, and again sink from our helpless arms into the void unknowable.
As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.