Quotes About Troubles

In general," he continued, "most things you worry about end up being no more than that—just worries.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away — it's just like a really long, bad cold.

Oh, the power of the delete. It felt fabulous. I wished I could go around deleting like crazy. I'd delete suspicious spots on X-rays and malls at Christmas, car troubles and tragic events in history, the world's and my own.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

Money can't fix everything, but it can make a lot of problems go away.

think that every one, no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon.

True it is that troubles niver come single, they're married an' has children.

It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.

It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit!

There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

I tell you, troubles are poor things to hug. They've got to many pickers.

The word suffering is much too grand to apply to most of our troubles, but if we don't learn to refer the little things to God how shall we learn to refer the big ones? A definition which covers all sorts of trouble, great or small, is this: having what you don't want, or wanting what you don't have. The vicissitudes of travel furnish plenty of what Janet Erskine Stuart calls "blessed inconveniences," occasions which fit both categories in our definition.

Lucky is the soul whose only troubles are self-inflicted. a

We blame repressive times for the madness of Marilyn, we blame the excessive times for the schizophrenia of Zelda. . . . But finally, now, with Prozac . . . it is easy to pin the troubles of all these women in the past on bad chemistry.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.

Seemed our house stirred up troubles enough to keep a radio soap show in daily episodes forever.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

I have never believed in the fallacy that the federal government can buy its way out of economic troubles through needless spending. For that reason, I am proud to oppose 'stimulus' packages and endless corporate bailouts, which will do little but weaken the long-term integrity of the American economy.

I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.

For all we know compassion could be a conditioned response and one that continues to keep us oppressed by putting other people's troubles ahead of our own. Isn't that what good women always do, sacrifice? We could be making a virtue out of oppression.