Distressing Quotes

78 quotes by 66 authors

Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is… — Mother Teresa
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass… — Parker J. Palmer
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms… — Elliott Carter
The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life… — Gary Zukav
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. — Sigmund Freud
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't… — Daniel Goleman
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions. — Daniel Goleman
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do… — Daniel Goleman
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. — Aldous Huxley
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing. — Bill Nighy
Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been… — Susan Orlean
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. — Andre Breton
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. — Rose Macaulay
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz
The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence. — Sara Gruen
Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative… — Mother Teresa
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead,… — Baruch Spinoza
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any… — Bill Bryson
But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road. — Piers Anthony
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable… — William Hazlitt

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