The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man…

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

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

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would…

— Peter Higgs