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Quotes About Distress

the ability to cope effectively with daily problems and responses does not depend on willpower. Solving problems and tolerating distress requires skill power,
~ Unknown
Know that distress and disappointment are states of stupidity and nothing else. Do not trust them. They have no intelligence whatsoever in them; they can only lead you astray. You are very foolish in being lured after their frantic shrieks. They shout that they are right, but they are always wrong and wrong for you personally. Do not follow deceitful lures of distress and disappointment.
~ Vernon Howard
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
~ Henry Fielding
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
~ George MacDonald
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
~ Josiah Strong
What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?" "Because I'm a damsel in distress," she said. "And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car.
~ Neil Gaiman
Shantideva said that since all sentient beings suffer from strong, conflicting emotions, and all sentient beings get what they don't want and can't hold on to what they do want, and all sentient beings have physical distress, why am I making such a big deal about just me? Since we're all in this together, why am I making such a big deal about myself?
~ Pema Chodron
Elaine turned to her father in her distress. 'Father will you give me permission to ride after Sir Lancelot? I must reach him. Otherwise I will go out of my mind with grief.' 'Go, good daughter. Rescue him, if you can.' So she made herself ready for the journey, weeping all the time. Gawain himself rode back to the court of the king in London" –The Fair Maid of Astolat
~ Peter Ackroyd
Why did you want to see me?" Dr. Lauterbach asked. "I'm unhappy," she had blurted out. "Everybody is unhappy," Dr. Lauterbach said
~ Peter Straub
That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment.
~ Philip K. Dick
Remorse, predictably, was the form taken by her distress, the merciless whipping that is self-condemnation, as if in times as bizarre as these there were a right way and a wrong way that would have been clear to somebody else, as if in confronting such predicaments the hand of stupidity is ever far from guiding anyone.
~ Philip Roth
Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer . . . For it is only when we are helpless that we open our hearts to Jesus and let Him help us in our distress, according to His grace and mercy. —O. H. Hallesby
~ David Jeremiah
I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.
~ David Levithan
I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for the world is terribly wrong. That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.
~ David Levithan
I don't know where I am, Evan. I'm seeing red everywhere. It's just...everywhere. I am underwater right now. You don't understand. I'm underwater. I need a gun. Evan? I need-
~ David Levithan
Therefore he understands the grief which troubles your fainting heart, and enters into all your distresses while you are bewailing yourself and lamenting that you cry in the day time and the Lord hears not, and that in the night season you plead in vain.
~ David Limbaugh
Inezie ci consolano perché inezie ci affliggono.»
~ Yasunari Kawabata
She could not do distress. Anger was so much easier. And quicker and harder and better. If I start crying, I'll never stop –you hear people say that; Kiki heard people say it all the time in the hospital. A backlog of sadness for which there would never be sufficient time
~ Zadie Smith
But elegance attracted me. I liked the way it hid pain.
~ Zadie Smith
I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.
~ David Rockefeller
At any time, people suffering severe psychological distress that is not of organic or other biological origin "choose" from socially available and clinically reinforced modes.
~ Ian Hacking
You know, Benji, I am definitely experiencing severe distress.
~ Unknown
Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Preocupación: algo que te enferma innecesariamente.
~ Idries Shah
But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song.
~ Ilchi Lee