Best Distress Wisdom
406 Distress quotes by 318 unique authors
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the…
— Samuel Richardson
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
— Josiah Strong
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To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have…
— Lucy Larcom
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Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a…
— Sivananda
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It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally…
— Scott Stossel
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Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more…
— Brother Lawrence
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As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted…
— Charles Dickens
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Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
— Plutarch
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The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no…
— William Wordsworth
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People in distress never think that you feel enough.
— Samuel Johnson
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We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
— Samuel Johnson
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.
— Sophocles
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Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.
— Moses ibn Ezra
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To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly…
— Meister Eckhart
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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
— Max Beerbohm
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If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes…
— Hafez
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Let's cause some senators distress.
— Peggy Noonan
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If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way.…
— James Nachtwey
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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep…
— George Papandreou
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'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears his distress. The…
— Maximus the Confessor
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There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my…
— William Trevor
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An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess…
— David Korten
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