Relief Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Mind, Wise Words

  John Burroughs (2001). “Literary Values and Other Papers”, p.56, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

  James McGreevey

  Practice, Catholic, Damnation

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• There's no relief, really, for me. I have relief after the Super Bowl. I set a goal to win the Super Bowl and that's where I'm going with it.

  Donovan McNabb

  Winning, Goal, Super Bowl

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• It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.

  Barry Bonds

  Baseball, Games, Able

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• The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Law, Age

  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II, Book Two, Chapter XX, 1840.

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• Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how.

  Kim Harrison

  Wanted, Know How, Knows

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• You try to leave and I will hunt you down." Relief poured through her, but she smacked at his thigh with the back of her brush. "Like a rabid dog? Very romantic.

  Nalini Singh

  Dog, Trying, Brushes

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.231, Penguin

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• I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness.  Then a young woman's voice said, in a passable British accent, "The Little People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back.  And in greater numbers."     I sagged in sudden, exhausted relief.  The bad guys hardly ever quote Star Wars.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, War, Voice

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• Tears disturb and confuse men, but women know the relief they can bring. I didn't cry because I couldn't deal with my life, but because I could.

  Megan Hart

  Men, Tears, Cry

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• Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.

  Nhat Hanh

  Matter, Able, Individual

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• Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Senior, Regret, Dirty

  "The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 - 1615.

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

  John H. Johnson

  Knowledge, Idiot, Disability

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• We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.

  Mick Fleetwood

  People, Moments, Treats

  Twitter post from Apr 20, 2016

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• Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Mother, Baby, New York

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.107, New York Review of Books

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• It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Baby, Pain

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 22, 2013

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• Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

  Pema Chodron

  Grief, Healing, Compassion

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• When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

  Laura Carmichael

  Real, Real Life, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

  Joseph Joubert

  Worry, Trouble, Dread

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling - like Star Trek's Spock - is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Stars, Hero, Boys

  "Space Cowboy: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany". Interview with Scott Westerfeld, www.nerve.com. 2001.

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• Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

  Plato

  Pain, Soul, Body

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.426, Courier Corporation

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• People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.

  Michael Chabon

  People, Doe, Reviews

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• There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

  April Masini

  Single, Dating, Serious

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• No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; [we] must be one great family of equals. The spiritual welfare of those on relief must receive especial care and be earnestly and prayerfully fostered. A system which gives relief for work or service will go far to reaching these ends.

  Heber J. Grant

  Spiritual, Pain, Giving

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• The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it.

  Rick Barry

  Country, Phones, Cells

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