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A hospital admission followed, the first of many, a diagnosis of schizophrenia came next, and then, worst of all, a toxic, tormenting sense of hopelessness, humiliation and despair about myself and my prospects.

Now looking back on the wreckage and despair of those years, it seems to me now as if someone died in that place, and yet, someone else was saved.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

And they face a daily struggle with social stigma, with family despair, and with religious fire and brimstone.

And neutrality, which seems to lie halfway between despair and celebration, is actually the endgame.

Your encouraging whispers in my whirlpool of despair, holding me and heaving me to shores of sanity, to live again and to love again."

And as a mentor, I know what to do, which is to step up my support for the student, because research in psychology shows that if you're feeling fear and despair, your mind narrows down to very safe and conservative ways of thinking.

We still have in us this old stuff about superiority and it is causing us to embed those further into our institutions and our society and generations, and it is making for despair and disparities and a devastating devaluing of young black men.

If you think your poverty is the result of your own inadequacy, you shrink into despair.

But what makes our experiences perhaps a little bit different and a little more unique than that of the average person is that we have this gnawing thing in the back of our mind that even in our darkest moments, and those times of despair, we think, "Hey, there might be an image to be made here, there might be a story to be told."

Following yet another heated argument between my parents, in a moment of despair and desperation, my mother turned to me and told me that I should die.

But the thing is that the refugees have stayed for a longer time, and the French government has managed to seal off the borders better, so now The Jungle is growing, along with the despair and hopelessness among the refugees.

But don't despair.

The band is in despair.

So you combine all that, the hopelessness, the despair, the cynicism about the future, the childhood trauma, the low social capital, and you begin to understand why me, at the age of 14, was ready to become just another statistic, another kid who failed to beat the odds.

We see it in whole pieces of the economy, where the people involved have lost hope about the future and despair about the present.

Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair.

These are the people that you can call on for a loan if you need money suddenly, who will call the doctor if you're not feeling well or who will take you to the hospital, or who will sit with you if you're having an existential crisis, if you're in despair.

And according to the research, what predicts this despair is not a lack of happiness.

So to those who despair that the Paris Climate Accord didn't go far enough or that your limited actions on their own won't solve global warming, I say don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

AM: As we struggle to clothe, house, feed and educate our communities; our spirits hunger for connection, joy and purpose; and as our bodies are out on the front lines, our souls still need to be fed, or else we succumb to despair and depression.

And yet at the same time, we feel increasingly frustrated by its politics and politicians, sometimes to the point of despair or hurt or anger.

In fact, despair is in the air.

And it's not helpful to look at those born under those circumstances, or a parent that makes their child a drug addict at age seven, or a generation of babies born through drug addiction, and not feel some despair.

I often lay on my bedroom floor after an attack of tics, feeling exhausted and in despair.

In fact, Second Life virtual worlds are a lot like the Internet in the early '90s today: everybody's very excited, there's a lot of hype and excitement about one idea or the next from moment to moment, and then there's despair and everybody thinks the whole thing's not going to work.

And at first, it's just an amorphous blob, and then there's a moment where the birds shift, and they form the shape of a starling in the sky! (Laughter) And as soon as I saw it, I was like, (Gasps) "The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing!" (Laughter) Except, for the first time, it didn't fill me with despair.

And in the depth of despair, in the midst of the movie, when it looks like he can't pull this thing off, and he needs this case, he needs to win this case so badly.

What is it that is expected of us by the billions of people who live in what Laurie Garrett the other day so appropriately called despair and disparity?

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