I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer… People's… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the USA. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
Do not distress yourself on account of any distaste or dryness you experience in God's service. He wills that you should serve… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the U.S.A. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Wanting too much sex and being obsessed with it is usually a sign of distress (or immaturity), not necessarily of passion. Passion… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy.… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was not at ease that night. I was a prey to an immense distress. I sat as if I had fallen… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows,… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs… — Horace Mann 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
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
“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
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
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
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent. It comes to the man who is depending on… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with… — Marjorie Pizer Copy Share Image
