#afflict

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#desire #feel #getting #outside #people

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#comes #make #sad #sober #sorry

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#aggression #culture #find #impede #less

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#bankrupt #cancer #happens #i #like

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. ↗

— Robert Hall

#anxious #benefit #more #our #removed

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#could #happy #known #man #more

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#defect #either #genius #given #gods

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. ↗

— John Woolman

#afflicted #been #christ #clearness #deeply

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#artistic #disease #temperament