Disturbed Quotes

• Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

  Banksy

  Art, Comfort, Should

  "Banksy Sells Works to Unsuspecting Tourists for Total of 420 Bucks, Shakes Very Foundation of Art" by Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 14, 2013.

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• People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

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• Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Mean, Talking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions”, p.39, Parallax Press

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• We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Happens

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• I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Tongue, Speak

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• In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Body, States

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", III. 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 513-16,

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• If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times a day you are disturbed.

  Rama Swami

  Want, Ifs

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• I’ll be emotionally disturbed for as long as it takes

  Harryette Mullen

  Long

  Harryette Mullen (2002). “Sleeping with the Dictionary”, p.28, Univ of California Press

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• No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Bravery, Unexpected

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• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Uplifting, Relaxation

  "The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche".

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• God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

  Shane Claiborne

  Comfort, Comfortable

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Keys

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

  Epictetus

  Gratitude, Men, Opinion

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• Nature is under control but not disturbed.

  Beatrix of the Netherlands

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• The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness.
  The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.
  The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make
  best use out of every situation.
  Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used
  to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mother, Blessing, Technique

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• ... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

  George Howe Colt

  Depression, Beautiful, Mental Illness

  George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

  Louis Malle

  Thinking, Opposites, Prophecy

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• I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Sympathy, People, Realizing

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• If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Inner Peace, Mind

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• Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Confused, Mind

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• It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

  Woody Guthrie

  Jobs, People, Comforting

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• To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 25, 2015

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• I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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