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• And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Years, Thought Provoking, Mind

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.130, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

  Carl Jung

  Adversity, Thinking, People

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• The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.

  Gail Carriger

  World, Patterns, Causes

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• The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires a considerable degree of free time, health, and an outlook of confident positivism. Thus, the religious authorities work hard to make and keep people feeling sinful, unworthy, and unhappy.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Religious, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Doubt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

  James A. Garfield

  Hard Times, Pathways, Panic

  US Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd session, June 22, 1874.

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• The person... in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to cope with the situation, and endures terrible feelings that have nothing to do with the present.

  Harvey Jackins

  Feelings, Doe, Failing

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• There is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance! Our times are turbulent and difficult. We see wars internationally and distress domestically. Neighbors all around us face personal heartaches and family sorrows. Legions know fear and troubles of a hundred kinds.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  War, Names, Heartache

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• You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Evil, Soul, Earth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.209, Delphi Classics

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• I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spiritual, Believe, Offering

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.284

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• In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Disappointment, Numbers, Doubt

  Harvard University. Harvard Law School Association. Council, Felix Frankfurter (1960). “Proceedings in honor of Mr. Justice Frankfurter and distinguished alumni at the meeting of the Council, Harvard Law School Association in Cambridge, April 30, 1960”

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• I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.

  Primo Levi

  Memories, Men, Clothes

  "The Mirror Maker" by Primo Levi, ("The Premise"), 1986.

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• The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

  Bert Hellinger

  Joy, Goodness, Criteria

  Bert Hellinger, Gabriele Ten Hövel (1999). “Acknowledging what is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger”, p.162, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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• Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spring, Ideas, Drunk

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.sfgate.com. 2008.

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• I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Perspective, Vision, Needs

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• If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood.

  Alice Miller

  Cells, Feelings, Mind

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• As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t matter to me. The world is full of suffering, distress, violence and catastrophes. Students must decide: does something concern you or not? I say: look around, analyze the problems, ask yourself what you can do and set out on the work!

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Challenges, Suffering

  "Students should become anarchists". ZEIT Campus Interview translated by IndyBay, www.indybay.org. June 14, 2011.

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• Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

  Vernon Howard

  Honesty, Healing, Self

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• It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Death, God, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.52, Discovery House

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• The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember.

  Alice Miller

  Baby, Soul, Ignored

  Alice Miller (2012). “Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries”, p.1, Anchor

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• When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Moving, Emotional

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• A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  Soldier, Corruption, Danger

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.256

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• The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  War, Creativity, Thinking

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• The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Family, Successful, Caring

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