Disheartened Quotes

• In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'

  Angeles Arrien

  Sweet, Life Changing, Medicine

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• Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Attitude, Failure

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.30, New World Library

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• Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Peace, Giving Up

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Healing, Mean, Imperfection

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• However, I can’t be happy. I feel I can’t have that experience, I can’t assume I will have that experience. I’m free but feeling lonely and disheartened. I hope there’s happiness out there; besides the future is approaching and waiting for me. In the future, I will be a part of the world. I will finally live my life.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Lonely, Waiting, Feelings

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• If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains and trials of your journey, but rather are contented with them, they will grow afraid of you.

  Henry Suso

  Pain, Journey, Temptation

  Blessed Henry Suso, Aeterna Press (2015). “A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom”, p.13, Aeterna Press

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• Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience. How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Teaching

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 03, 2015

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Compassion, Patient

  Saint Francis (de Sales), Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Wendy M. Wright, Joseph F. Power (1988). “Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction”

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• When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Cutting, Doors

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 08, 2014

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• Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Given, Wells

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Taken, Ethos

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• Don't tell me the sky's the limit.

  Paul Brandt

  Inspirational, Moon, Sky

  Song: There's A World Out There, Album: That's the Truth, 1999

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• I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Jobs, Adversity, Persistence

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• What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

  Pema Chodron

  What If, Accepted, Uncertainty Of Life

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• Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

  Rumi

  Essence, Roots, Unseen

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• Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

  Joseph Joubert

  Spiritual, Soul, World

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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• Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.

  Colleen Houck

  Waiting, Twists, Watches

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• Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  People, Failing, Enough

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• Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.

  Francois Fenelon

  Encouragement, Religious, Heart

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• You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Ocean, Garden

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Courage, Mean, Imperfection

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• The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.

  Rumi

  World, Source, Whole

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• Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

  William Ralph Inge

  Judging, Soldier, Battle

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• Don’t be disheartened when you didn’t get to be with the one you love. Sometimes you just have to accept the reality that the one you asked God for, asked God for somebody else. God is All-Knowing. He knows what you need. Trust His master plan.

  Rita Zahara

  Reality, Knowing, Needs

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• As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.

  William Winwood Reade

  Fall, Sleep, Men

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.507

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