Alleviate Quotes - Page 2

• Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

  Michael Bassey

  Lazy, Needs, Poverty

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• Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

  Helen Keller

  Suffering, Satisfied, Labor

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.74, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government, Principles, Plight

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• In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Brother, Poverty

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• I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.

  Louise Hay

  Stress, Each Day, Want

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from May 25, 2011

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• Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Pain, Irritation

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• I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.

  Ziggy Marley

  Running, Stress, Exercise

  "Ziggy Marley Says ‘Love Can Never Have A Negative Effect, Only A Positive Effect’". Origin Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2013.

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• It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Life, Attitude, Loneliness

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• Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

  Joseph Addison

  Kindness, Lying, Men

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.2953, Delphi Classics

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• How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Healing, Ambition, Voice

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• Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.

  Deborah Needleman

  Art, Believe, People

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• The long-term benefit of homeopathy to the patient is that it not only alleviates the presenting symptoms but it reestablishes internal order at the deepest levels and thereby provides a lasting cure.

  George Vithoulkas

  Order, Long, Benefits

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• Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.

  Harvey Broome

  Pain, Sunset, Men

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• My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or not. But if you prove false in anything you’ve said here today, I will bring a wrath down on you so sever that you will spend eternity trying to dig out your own brains to alleviate the pain of it. (Apollymi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Son, Wrath

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

  Dean Cavanagh

  Art, Entertainment, Fear Of Death

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• Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Heart, Humility, Vegetables

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• After four knee surgeries and hundreds of shots injected into my knee weekly to alleviate swelling and pain, my body is begging me to stop the pounding.

  Li Na

  Pain, Body, Four

  "Li Na, China's double grand slam winner, forced to retire with knee injury", www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pain, Mind, Poverty

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• When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about the environment, how they believe in, you know, everybody getting a fair shot, how they believe in not discriminating against people for sexual orientation and you know, their belief that we have to work with other countries to create a more peaceful world and to alleviate poverty, that's the majority an entire generation that's coming up behind us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Diversity

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Strength, World, Indifference

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.870

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• By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.

  Ellie Goulding

  Writing, I Realized, Built

  "Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon Days". Interview With Jamie Lincoln, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jesus, Pain, Names

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• The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend immediate reimbursement of criminal justice costs, because these conditions can now be met, but we urge further study of the costs of health care and education before impact aid is provided.

  Barbara Jordan

  Impact, Government, Justice

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• As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Brother

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill, nor to create suffering in a grasping search for selfish objectives, but to help alleviate the plight of the needy; to aim at justice and freedom for the individual.

  Poul Hartling

  Selfish, Lying, Future

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