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• Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Powerful, Struggle

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• Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Sweet, Inspiration, Greatness

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• If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Talking, Details

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent
  civilians...What is one more life thrown away in this
  sad and useless national tragedy? If one death can
  atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the
  world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am
  ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my
  country.

  Malachi Ritscher

  Country, Tragedy, World

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• What we don't need today is more turmoil, more upheaval and more economic chaos.

  Kezia Dugdale

  Needs, Upheaval, Today

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.

  L. Tom Perry

  Priorities, Important, World

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Frustration, Emotional

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.129, Shambhala

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• You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.

  Pearl Cleage

  Buddhist, Believe, Privacy

  Pearl Cleage (2009). “I Wish I Had a Red Dress”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Body, May

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• There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent.

  Mao Zedong

  Heaven, Excellent, Prospects

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• Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

  Lionel Shriver

  Country, Political, Entertainment

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

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• Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Humanity, Earth

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.38, Bantam

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• When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

  Scott Peterson

  Storm, Sides, Caught

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• The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

  Bryan Cranston

  Dad, Kids, Profound

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a generation that suppressed people and lived under apartheid regimes. I don't know how you can come out of that and not have an awareness for the world. I think that if my life had turned out any other way and I was working in a bank, I would still feel this way about it, because there's a connection to humanity that to me is really important.

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry.

  Michael Hudson

  Government, Isis, Iraq

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Nature, Animal, Cities

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• Look at Ukraine. Its currency, the hernia, is plunging. The euro is really in a problem. Greece is problematic as to whether it can pay the IMF, which is threatening not to be part of the troika with the European Central Bank and the European Union making more loans to enable Greece to pay the bondholders and the banks. Britain is having a referendum as to whether to withdraw from the European Union, and it looks more and more like it may do so. So the world's politics are in turmoil.

  Michael Hudson

  Ukraine, Looks, Imf

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

  David Jeremiah

  Taken, America, Soul

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• I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Song, Emotional, Rocks

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I'm excited to just have somebody that I can protect. Someone I can make sure is superloved and never really experiences the turmoil that I went through with my family, to just have a really loving environment that grows intelligent and in love and breathes happiness and productivity.

  Nick Carter

  Intelligent, Environment, Excited

  "Nick Carter Reveals What He's Most Looking Forward to About Becoming a Dad". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 27, 2016.

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• The left are responsible for all the turmoil and the "social issues" of politics, because they're the ones constantly trying to corrupt it. And if people stand up and try to explain it, they are said to be the problem.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Issues, People, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Heart, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• People feel like they are in turmoil and confusion, but that space of understanding also exists, and the initiations lift that density off them so that they start to glimpse something more of themselves.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Space, Confusion, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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