Ease Quotes

• Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,
  For not to live at ease is not to live.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Giving, Genius, Indulge

  Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden (1693). “The Satires, Translated Into English Verse by J. Dryden ... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus Made English by Mr. Dryden”

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• Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.

  Surya Das

  Letting Go, Regret, Home

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• In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Buddhism, Sky

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• On the floor I am more at ease.

  Jackson Pollock

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Irony, Draws, Reservoirs

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Writing, Worry, Feelings

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Echoes, Keys, One Day

  "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)

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• I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

  Namie Amuro

  Rap, Wells, I Can

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• What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

  Joe Grant

  Inspiration, Expression, Manipulation

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• To be at ease is better than to be at business.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Work

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.142, Shambhala Publications

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• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  Xunzi

  Sincerity, Foresight, Ifs

  Xunzi (1999). “Xunzi”

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• That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

  Ben Kingsley

  Flesh, Longing, Hunger

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2001.

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• The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

  Corazon Aquino

  Light, Media, People

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• A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  New York, Europe, Cities

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.269, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

  Donald Justice

  Journey, Land, Silence

  Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.38, Knopf

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• I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

  Leslie Caron

  Hate, Arrogant Person, Trying

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• Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

  Armstrong Williams

  Sports, Confidence, Dream

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• The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

  Paul Volcker

  Moving, Communication, Differences

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• When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

  Edie Brickell

  Kids, Wish, Looks

  "Edie Brickell ready for 'Picture Perfect' comeback". www.today.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

  Terence Stamp

  Trying

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• It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

  Bobby Womack

  Song, Soul, Wish

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

  Dylan Thomas

  Vanity, Upset, Ordinary

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Business, Reality

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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