Ease Quotes

• A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Mind, Doe

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.198

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• Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Please, Poor Richard, Ought

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.63, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Success, Dance, Life And Love

  Samuel Johnson (1831). “The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons”, p.47

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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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• 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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• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

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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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• One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Art, Photographer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

  William Cowper

  Life, Happiness, Easy

  William Cowper (1815). “Poems”, p.290

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• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  Og Mandino

  Pain, Self, Laughing

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• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Happiness, Courage

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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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• 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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