Ease Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Men, Thinking

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Happiness”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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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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• You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Lying, Heaven, Bed

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.

  John F. Kennedy

  New Ventures, Decision, Risk

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Fitness, Order, Levels

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

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• I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

  Hugh Laurie

  Boys, Self, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Jan 02, 2017

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  I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Inspirational, Thinking, Hot

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• The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

  James Otis

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

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• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Strength, Dedication

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899

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