We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting… — Donald T. Phillips Copy Share Image
There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity and peace, and free it from confusion and distress — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
“For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget… — Jessica Fortunato Copy Share Image
Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I have to get back there." I said to Adrian. "Into that door." He arched an eyebrow. "What, like sneaking in? How… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“At this crisis certain inventions in machinery were introduced into the staple manufactures of the north, which, greatly reducing the number of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world,… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“ Fine . The next time that my life is destroyed, I'll try to express my distress in a quieter fashion, far… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil,… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
