Ease Quotes

• 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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• The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Creative, Etching

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

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• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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• Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Lying, Winning

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• Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Ideas, Mind, Together

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

  Dalai Lama

  Feelings, Mind, Religious Traditions

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving, Feelings, Insecurity

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ease leads to habit, as success to ease.
  He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

  George Crabbe

  Habit, Live By, Please

  George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.37

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• When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Money, Fear, War

  "The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 2014.

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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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• Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Stupidity, Society, World

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• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Light, Neglect, Satisfied

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.259, Macmillan

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• I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

  Stone Gossard

  Fitness, Self Esteem, Cancer

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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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• A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

  William Cowper

  Life, Happiness, Easy

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

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• Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Memories, Struggle

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• I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.

  Jeremy Piven

  Beautiful, Heart, Cities

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

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• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

  Alexander Pope

  Dance, Art, Moving

  "The Works of Alexander Pope".

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• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

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• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

  Georges Bataille

  Judging, Mind, Lasts

  Georges Bataille (1983). “L'abbé C: A Novel”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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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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• Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

  Henry Lawson

  Wisdom, Travel, Home

  Henry Lawson, Walter Stone (1973). “Poems of Henry Lawson”, Sydney : Ure Smith

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• What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Libertarian Party, Long

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Knowing

  "Four Years After the Oprah-Eckhart Tolle Web Class, What I Still Can Learn" by Meryl Davids Landau, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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