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of just looking at what we lack, comparing ourselves with others and seeing only what is missing, and then resenting, despairing, and being sad—actually, we must remember that this child God gave to our family, this husband, this wife...

morning of parting at 6:00, following a brief reunion, thrusts the lovers into a cruel crossroad of destiny. At 7:00, despairing before a forced marriage, Juliet drinks the Friar's sleeping potion at 8:00 and collapses onto the clock...

The very word plan confirms God’s paternal purpose, a realization so desperately needed by the confused and despairing on the world’s stage. The “plan of happiness” not only ensures the immortalization of our individual identities...

below. Look at Spinoza, a Portuguese Jew expelled from the Netherlands. Read his “Ethics,” which is itself a despairing elegy, beneath which lie propositions presented in a seemingly concise and serene, almost geometric manner...