Distraction Quote by David Brainard Download Open image ““Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.”” — David Brainard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distraction Nature Suffering
“Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede… — Steven Laffoley Copy Share Image
“I am tired today. Very, very tired. Yet not so tired I can’t manage to see the blessings all around me, gifts that I… — Guideposts Copy Share Image
“Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the Earth Where nothing lives but crosses, cares, and grief.” — William Shakespeare (Richard II Copy Share Image
“Because how could I rest, when the world is so cruel and hard, and yet might be so sweet.” — Sarah Walters Copy Share Image
“Life with trials hard may press me; Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But even the worst earthly pain and heartache doesn't last into the heavenly realm. And it all serves a higher purpose.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“When we get to heaven we will be able to put the load down and just be nice!” — January Bain Copy Share Image
“Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don’t go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.” — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“No matter what, if you have the strength of life, it is enough to be thankful.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“It doesn't take much to make me happy, but the simplest things are sometimes the hardest to get. But when if finally arrives, heaven… — Jaime Reed Copy Share Image
“You are a perfect balance of heaven and hell, a purgatory of passion and pain.” — Jessica Katoff Copy Share Image
“Such fatigues and hardship as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and, I trust, will make heaven the sweeter. Formerly, when… — David Brainard Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive, they tempt… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image