Quotes about distress
Carlos Wallace - The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
It is never prudent to bury our heads in the sand when in distress or faced with adversity to place our hands over our eyes in a feeble attempt to hide from the inevitable.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
There is grace for survival I survived two years without a regular salary.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
The effects of overworkingYou forget which day it is.You think fast than what you write.
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
The main recipients of injustice in any society are the afflicted the distressed and the troubled one, both in soul and in body.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Dancing dismiss distress.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Whoever doubt is in state of delusion.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
If you dance daily, you shall expel any seed of distress in thy soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
When faced with many rejections, don’t give up. Hold fast to your dreams and keep up with sacred-work, you will succeed in the sacred-time.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Loss of hope is root of distress.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
The Lord shall be your comfort in times of distress.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
I carry my burdens to the Lord. He lightens the weight on my shoulders.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Life is an individual race of endurance.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
You are a wonderful sacred-soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
With a good music and a good dance, you enhance your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
God afflicts people for a reason
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
I suffered in my spirit, so that my soul will be restored.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
I hold on to faith and hope.
Donna Lynn Hope -
Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.
Casey Renee Kiser - Darkness Plays Favorites
I amBroken single motherDisconnected loverSlow motion dresserDark secret confessorWhite flag trendProfessional dead end
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
May your heart be joyful to overcome painful situation.
Criss Jami - Healology
To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
In times of adversity and affliction, may you wait for the Lord to rescue and deliver you.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.
Matshona Dhliwayo -
Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.
Stephen King - No Stars
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading
The moment you realize that life will hurt more than your death. While existing, we're forced to become acquainted with sadness. There's no antibiotic for the ridding of distress, and no alleviation of these intervals of pain we must encounter. Behind our eyes, are all these things: our stories, our dreams, our deficiencies, and our scars. Today would leave a scar.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Brandon Nolta - Iron and Smoke
If finding a woman in your bed is so distressing, magus, you should rethink the direction your life’s taken.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Find the courage to live life.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t cry for them to be happy. Find courage to overcome the circumstance.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
It is better to be positive than negative.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
when distress comes your way, pause and ponder
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
when distress comes your ways, pause and ponder
Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls
Children do not always appreciate their parents encouraging them to explore and grow. The selfishness of a child manifests itself in his or her intent to remain a child and never enter an adult world of distress, disappointment, and jadedly surrendering an envisioned life by making commitments that limit boundless options.
Sheldon K. Bass -
Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace." Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
When we fall, we will rise again.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Rest, refreshed and revived your soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
You are wonderful sacred-soul.
William Styron - Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.
Aditya Ajmera -
God cherish and value our prayer more profoundly in our days of abundance instead of distress.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests, first of all, perhaps, upon the private agencies of philanthropy, secondly, other social organizations, and last, but not least, the Church. Yet all agree that to leave to the locality the entire responsibility would result in placing the heaviest burden in most cases upon those wh
Ellen J. Barrier - The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins
When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.
Winston Graham - Demelza
Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Sadness grieves the spirit. But sorrow refines soul.
Alain de Botton -
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
Anthony Liccione -
In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Despair leads to distress.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
No matter what happens to you, if you have life, with faith and hope, you will live to see your situation change.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We will share each other’s burdens with love and kindness.
John Marmysz - and Distress
Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Grace freely given by God,
Eknath Easwaran - The Mantram Handbook
If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, "why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Distress is fearful gloom.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
If you don’t reach out to me when I am in distress, do you want to celebrate my success?
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Thank God, who delivered us from great death, the doom of distress.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Don't be your own devil.
Erik Pevernagie -
Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Just with a feel of realism, without prejudice, should we step into the future. What will be, will be. Only the fortune of war will tell, since life may be war or peace. ("Fish for silence.")
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Distress is a disease of the mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Discouragement is root of distress.
Gregory of Nazianzus -
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. ‘For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.’ (1 Cor. 11:31-32).
Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters
The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy decades
Anthony Liccione -
Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.
Ann Brashares - The Last Summer
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
Dalai Lama XIV - The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.
Mary Street - The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy
Elizabeth’s tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knewit would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.
Sarah Caudwell - Thus Was Adonis Murdered
I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied logic and is unaware of the impossibility.
Ron Brackin -
The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture--not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.
Elvis Costello -
There's a girl in this dress,there's always a girl in distress.
L. Jayne - Chasing After Infinity
Then I’m suddenly reminded of how I get engulfed with nightmares of Mom’s death as soon as I fall asleep. Hesitantly, I call to him, “Hey, Adrian?”“Yeah?”“Can you hold my hand the entire night?” My voice comes out as a quiet whisper.There’s a pause. I’m almost afraid to meet his eyes. Heartbeat picking up faster, his fingers interweave with mine and lace them together. I turn almost reflexively and I’m faced with his eyes—burning so green that it’s hard to look away. And for a second—one second,
Shreyansh Jaiswal -
I was free, free from all the distress and angst i felt before. Her red string of fate was tied to someone else and my thread was broken.
Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls
Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.
L.A. Serröt - Gris
Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.
James Patterson - Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.
Samuel Beckett - The Unnamable
When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture, in the midst of my family all trying to embrace me at once, until by virtue of a supreme spasm I am catapulted in the opposite direction and gradually leave backwards, without having said good evening.
St. Mark the Ascetic -
When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if they are destroyed at the stage when they are only provocations, their evil consequences will be cut off, whereas if the thoughts persist the evil may be expected to develop.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon - All of Grace
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
In the wilderness, be not afraid. Trust God to deliver you.
Renata Adler - Toward a Radical Middle: Fourteen Pieces of Reporting and Criticism
he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
Balroop Singh -
Looking backwardsHas never been my endeavorLost passions… bruised emotionsNever distressed me.
Horace Mann -
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Edmund Burke -
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Anthony Liccione -
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Distress leads to dimness.
Jessica Fortunato - Sacrifice
For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. In my distress, I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones. I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.~Psalm 102 NIV Bible
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t allow the fear to weaken you. You must conquer fear with faith.
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
All this time I had never been able to consider my own situation, nor could I do so yet. I had not the power to attend to it. I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way. As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant. When I opened the shutters and looked out at the wet wild morning, all of a leaden hue; when I walked from room to room; when I sat down again shivering, before the fire, waiting for my laundress to appear; I th