Exhaustion Quotes - Page 9

• Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Issues, Violence, Sooner Or Later

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Running, Idols, Doe

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• Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to say to their cameraman, their cast. It's the sign of real, physical exhaustion.

  Peter Mullan

  Real, Trainspotting, Directors

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

  Gordon T. Smith

  May, Exhausted, Wholeheartedness

  Gordon T. Smith (2011). “Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential”, p.64, InterVarsity Press

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• There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, People, Black History

  "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression". Essay by Martin Luther King, Jr., taken from MLK's book "Stride Toward Freedom", 1958.

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• Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Doctors, Serious Illness

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• I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Editors, Ideas, Waiting

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