“What waits me on the shelves? I cannot guess, But feel the sure foreboding; there will cry A voice of human laughter… — Harold Rabinowitz Copy Share Image
When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
“I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing,… — Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart Copy Share Image
“When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be… — St. Mark the Ascetic Copy Share Image
Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
“The physical distress was over, but something else still remained, some sort of free-floating disquiet, at first hard to comprehend, but which… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Fixating on the outcome or needing to know all the details of an upcoming event, such as a trip, causes people to… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used as a distress symbol. You’ll know I’m in danger and in need of rescue, because I’ll be… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest… — William Blake Copy Share Image
We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Every time you see someone in distress, you have the opportunity to work as a team with Heaven's angels. You become the… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
