Caroline Myss Quotes

Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here.

Caroline Myss

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Funny
  • Wish
  • Government

• First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Help
  • Suffering
  • End

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Different
  • Money
  • Wish

• I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Past

• China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Change
  • Suffering
  • Leadership

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Change
  • Wish

• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lost
  • Suffering
  • Progress

• Acquisitiveness – the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods – is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Wish

• It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Prayer

• We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act … Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Wish
  • Universe

• I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Good
  • Wish

• I know you need to go,But before you do I want you to know, that IWish you the best.And I wish you nothing lessThan every thing you've ever dreamed of.And I hope that you find love along the way.But most of all,I wish you'd stay.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Hope
  • Wish

• I see you around sometimes and my heart just melts. You're looking like if you had your wish, you'd be somewhere else. And it just breaks my heart to see you here this way. Someday I'll get the nerve to walk up to you and say This is the last worthless evening that you'll have to spend. Just gimme a chance to show you how to love again.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Wish

• I'm a 20 year old white boy residing on the Eastside of Cleveland, OH, and I am loud and obnoxious troubled youth that spends weeknights pissing parents off by turning their daughter's room into a giant orgy-fest.

  

  Machine Gun Kelly
  • Parents
  • Boy
  • Daughter

• The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Pain

• Tillman was from South Carolina, and as I hear the story he was concerned that the corporations, Republican corporations, were favorable toward blacks and he felt that there was a need to regulate them.

  

  Clarence Thomas

• I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Real
  • Guy

• Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Wish
  • Suffering