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Quotes About Disturbance

You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.
~ St. Clare of Assisi
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
~ Swami Vivekananda
What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.
~ David Whyte
I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed.
~ Jarod Kintz
What do you gain if you ban employees from, say, visiting a social-networking site or watching YouTube while at work? You gain nothing. That time doesn't magically convert to work. They'll just find some other diversion.
~ Jason Fried
Nadie se había atrevido a turbar el universo, o al menos no había sido yo.
~ Javier Marías
It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
There are many people who are always waiting for the next thing to react against, to feel annoyed or disturbed about—and it never takes long before they find it. "This is an outrage," they say. "How dare you…." "I resent this." They are addicted to upset and anger as others are to a drug. Through reacting against this or that they assert and strengthen their feeling of self.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Your sense of who you are determines what you perceive as your needs and what matters to you in life -- and whatever matters to you will have the power to upset and disturb you. You can use this as a criterion to find out how deeply you know yourself. What matters to you is not necessarily what you say or believe, but what your actions and reactions reveal as important and serious to you. So you may want to ask yourself the question: What are the things that upset and disturb me?
~ Eckhart Tolle
Emotion literally means "disturbance." The word comes from the Latin emovere, meaning "to disturb.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.
~ Edna O'Brien
After less than a year together they now slept in separate rooms because Victor's snoring, and nothing else about him, kept her awake at night.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
~ Albert Ellis
But he was beginning to grow old. He slept more than had been his wont, and bit by bit his long daily runs were shortening. As with some fastidious elderly bachelor or spinster, the approach of age made Lad fussily averse to any disturbing change in the routine of his placid daily life. Strangers and guests were increasingly unwelcome to him.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
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~ Alex Anderson
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
~ Pope Paul VI
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
~ John Cleveland
Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.
~ Jonas Mekas
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
~ Ezra Pound
Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore. She doesn't mean that it's a real veil. And it isn't about magic, or some idea that maybe God is looking right at you, or an angel is sitting next to you, or anything like that. Mom doesn't think in those ways. It's just her way of saying that most of the time, people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.
~ Rebecca Stead
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience.
~ Rene Char
Life became an interruption of my description of it.
~ Richard Powers
A good rule of thumb was that the more noise someone was making the less likely they were to die.
~ Kate Atkinson