“Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.”
“Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.”
“It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle the power of discouragement and hopelessness.”
“He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.”
“Brain tumor survivors,don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You are in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.”
“I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.”