Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“distress and anxiety were aspects of human nature that understood no logic” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war,… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little… — Leo McCarey Copy Share Image
Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Clinical Definitions DISTRESS: Stress that occurs from negative events. For example, the stress that occurs from experiencing the death of a loved… — Paul Kleinman Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
“Come in," he said gently. And inwardly raged at this portion of his being that rendered him helpless; that he could not… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Anxiety and stress-related mental dysfunction is the plague of modern-day society. Millions of people are tormented by anxious thinking and the consequent… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
