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Quotes About Troubles

We wear our problems differently.
~ Ned Vizzini
It was incongruous at Coombargana. In a great city such things happen now and then, where people are too strained and hurried to pay much attention to the griefs of others, but in a small rural community like ours, led by wise and tolerant people such as my father and mother, staffed by good types culled and weeded out over the years, such secret, catastrophic griefs do not occur. Troubles at Coombargana had always been small troubles in my lifetime.
~ Nevil Shute
T]he Romans, observing troubles from afar, always found remedies for them and never allowed them to develop in order to avoid a war, for they knew that war does not go away, but is merely deferred to the advantage of others.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
As difficult as it is, you have to learn to put aside your troubles and concentrate entirely on the task at hand. Find peace within yourself and let your actions flow from there.
~ Christopher Paolini
That was one of Monck's troubles; the other was at the opposite end of the social scale—the Communists. They were making all the difficulties they could for Socialists, as well as for Americans; they wanted everything to fail, not merely with capitalism, but also with Social Democracy, in order that the workers might be driven to Communism.
~ Upton Sinclair
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
~ Victor Hugo
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.
~ Victor Hugo
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.
~ Victor Hugo
The answer is found in the word "achieving," for these "momentary troubles are achieving for us" something very precious. They are teaching us not only the way to victory but, better still, the law of victory—there is a reward for every sorrow, and the sorrow itself produces the reward.
~ L.B. Cowman
How can we have rain without clouds? Our troubles have always brought us blessings, and they always will. They are the dark chariots of bright grace. These clouds will empty themselves before long, and every tender herb will be gladder for the shower. Our God may drench us with grief, but He will refresh us with mercy. Our Lord's love letters often come to us in black-edged envelopes. His wagons rumble, but they are loaded with benefits.
~ L.B. Cowman
God makes you "see troubles." Sometimes, as part of your education being carried out, you must "go down to the depths of the earth" (Ps. 63:9), travel subterranean passages, and lie buried among the dead. But not for even one moment is the bond of fellowship and oneness between God and you strained to the point of breaking. And ultimately, from the depths, He "will restore [your] life again.
~ L.B. Cowman
He realized that all this time he'd been looking to the Godslayer as a hero, not a man, but that heroes, whatever else they are, are also men - and women - and prey to human troubles just like anybody else.
~ Laini Taylor
You are so fortunate, aren't you? What troubles you have in life you have picked them up, sort of gathered them to yourself, such as Victoria, and Joe, and Lily and her child. Yet, you needn't have done any of these things, you could have stayed happily in this haven and led the life it suggests, peace and tranquillity
~ Catherine Cookson
everybody was terribly distracted by the seemingly unending, white-hot, existential, logistical, mostly mundane troubles of their own day-to-day lives.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Why does it seem like there's something the matter with everything? Because there is something wrong with everything!"[2]
~ Gerrit Dawson
It's always something.
~ Gilda Radner
We all know that history is personal, so here is my brief "Autobiography by Bathroom." I've titled it "To Pee or Not to Pee." Not to get all Shakespearean or anything, but the process does involve shocks that flesh is heir to, the baring of bodkins, swearing, and what can feel like a sea of troubles.
~ Gina Barreca
Worry is wasting today's time cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles.
~ Author Unknown
How many troubles have they witnessed! Troubles, — ah, but how many mercies too! Think of THESE. Troubles and mercies, — which were most in number in the ten years passed? You can count your troubles, can you count your blessings? Are you willing, in the next ten years, to make this exchange: to let the troubles of the past ten years be the measure of your mercies in the next ten years; and to let the mercies of the past ten years be the measure of your troubles in coming ten?
~ George Allen, 1861
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Detteras said thoughtfully, "You know, I think it only fair that you leave the filament here. Why victimize us?" "I don't plan to be killed, Mr. Detteras." "Your plans might go awry." "If so, your troubles will seem very trivial in comparison to mine. May I have my weapons?
~ Jack Vance
It seems," said Gersen, "that troubles are catching up with you." Dasce spat at him. "Fah! What more can you do to me? Do you think I fear death? I live only out of hate.
~ Jack Vance
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.
~ James Allen