Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Agitation Community Contribution Difference Happiness Overrated

In order for evil to go down, the good had to fight, suffer and die. We won, but only after suffering a lot of pain and I’m sure many have had second thoughts. Despite everything, we had new hope after the battle. We cleared the agitation. We were free. The same goes for this war. The good on both sides needs to survive and the bad needs to wither away.

~ Melita Tessy

Melita Tessy Agitation Bad Freedom Good Hope Suffering War

If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?

~ Eknath Easwaran

Eknath Easwaran Agitation Distress Mantra Self Help Spirituality

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

~ Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Abolition Activism Agitation Dissent Human Rights Liberties Politics Power Radicalism Rights Slavery Suffrage

If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Dada Bhagwan Agitated Agitation Insult Insults Maan Respect Spiritual Spiritual Quotes

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

~ Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Activism Agitation Dissent Liberties Power Radicalism Rights

If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.

~ T.f. Hodge

T.f. Hodge Agitate Agitation Comfort Disturb Lies Life Living Pride Prideful Living Results Truth

Suicidal pain includes the feeling that one has lost all capacity to effect emotional change. The agony is excruciating and looks as if it will never end. There is the feeling of having been beaten down for a very long time. There are feelings of agitation, emptiness, and incoherence. 'Snap out of it and get on with your life,' sounds like a demand to high jump ten feet.

~ David L. Conroy

David L. Conroy Agitation Depression Emptiness Hopelessness Incoherence Snap Out Of It Suffering Suicidal Pain Suicide

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

~ Tim Fargo

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Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as the great gust of agitation which, now and then, sweeps over the human spirit. For then the creature in whose company we are seeking amusement at the moment, her lot is cast, her fate and ours decided, that is the creature whom we shall henceforward love. It is not necessary that she should have pleased us, up till then, any more, or even as much as others. All that is necessary is that our taste for her should become exclusive. And that condition is fulfilled so soon as - in the moment when she has failed to meet us - for the pleasure which we were on the point of enjoying in her charming company is abruptly substituted an anxious torturing desire, whose object is the creature herself, an irrational, absurd desire, which the laws of civilised society make it impossible to satisfy and difficult to assuage - the insensate, agonising desire to possess her.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Agitation Description Desire Exclusivity Love Possession

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

~ Kate Dicamillo

Kate Dicamillo Agitation Anxiety Helplessness

Agitation gives birth to creation.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams Agitation Birth Creation

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

~ Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs Agitation Change Dissent Progress

Listening out for the sound of [his parent's] return kept him suspended in a semi-permanent state of agitation just like an apparently sleeping cat whose ear radar never rests.

~ Jon Edgell

Jon Edgell Agitation Cats Hearing Listening Sleeping Cat

Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions. Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita Agitated Agitated Females Agitation Alien Alien Life Keep Calm Keep Going Provoking Provoking Thoughts Shame Shameful