#stressed

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#need #predominantly #remote #schools #stressed

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s. ↗

— Jamie Moyer

#always #been #couple #dad #ethic

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#like #make #material #material things #nonsensical

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#become #find #hole #i #important

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #central #compassion #conformity #doctrine

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. ↗

— Edward Lear

#died #distressed #door #eaten #fiddle

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#first #guess #her #i #little

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#am #angry #distressed #i #i am

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

The gaping hole in her heart is amplified when she catches a glimpse of the strands of silver hair framing her once young face in the mirror. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#rocio #self-image #stressed #experience