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Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.John Marmysz
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Loss of hope is root of distress.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Distress is fearful gloom.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.Lailah Gifty Akita
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It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.Stephen King
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Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace." Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138.Sheldon K. Bass
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Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.Alain De Botton
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Sadness grieves the spirit. But sorrow refines soul.Lailah Gifty Akita
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He writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.Renata Adler
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Looking backwards Has never been my endeavor Lost passions… bruised emotions Never distressed me.Balroop Singh
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Distress is a disease of the mind.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy decadesRohinton Mistry
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.Ann Brashares
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If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.Dalai Lama Xiv
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There's a girl in this dress, there's always a girl in distress.Elvis Costello
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.Edmund Burke