If you do not want the disturbance, do not be disturbed.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather…

— Herbert Marcuse

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they…

— John Cleveland

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

— Sonia Rykiel

As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the…

— Pico Iyer

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

— Oswald Chambers

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself…

— Pope Leo XIII

The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of…

— Epicurus

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen…

— Joel Salatin

Too much clutter is a disturbance to the energy of a space for me. It's big no-no for me.

— Gauri Khan

If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human passions causing…

— John of Kronstadt

So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances…

— Kyongho

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its…

— Tennessee Williams

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

— Ramana Maharshi