Troubled Quotes
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
Daniel Defoe
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I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
Doris Day
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If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively.
Karan Mahajan
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I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
Pam Bondi
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
Wally Lamb
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Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show.
Stevie Wonder
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Be as much troubled by unjust praises, as by unjust slanders.
Philip Henry
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...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
Nikolai Gogol
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Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
Epictetus
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.
Lao Tzu
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As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth.
Mircea Eliade
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
Epictetus
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
John Milton
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Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.
Plutarch
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The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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“You must not be greatly troubled about many things, but you should care for the main thing — preparing yourself for death.”
Ambrose of Optina
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All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.
Lao Tzu
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
Dante Alighieri
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Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum
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I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.
Debby Boone