Best Distress Wisdom

406 Distress quotes by 318 unique authors

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
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster. — Josiah Strong
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
People in distress never think that you feel enough. — Samuel Johnson
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
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. — Oliver Goldsmith
When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs. — Sophocles
Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love. — Moses ibn Ezra
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
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. — Max Beerbohm
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
Let's cause some senators distress. — Peggy Noonan
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
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
'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
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
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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