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• Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tension, Extremes

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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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• 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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• 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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• Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day.

  Rachel Vincent

  Summer, Air, Hot

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Lose”, p.39, Harlequin

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• A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Grief, Dark, Tears

  Samuel Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode”

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• How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Would Be, World

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• . . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

  Eavan Boland

  Fog, Giving, Elements

  Eavan Boland (2008). “Domestic Violence”, W. W. Norton

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• Truth is, it's a relief to finally put my life in the hands of someone I trust.

  Simone Elkeles

  Hands, Truth Is

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Engagement, Entertainment

  "Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show" by Amanda Petrusich, www.newyorker.com. February 6, 2017.

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• I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]

  Julian Barnes

  Years, Laughing, Boredom

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• Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

  Lew Wallace

  Dream, Real, Wine

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.477, Bible Study Steps

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• The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Time, Sigh Of Relief

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  Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

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• Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Love, Nature, Compassion

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• There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Spiritual, Light, Giving

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• We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.

  Peter Høeg

  Pain, Special, Trying

  "The Quiet Girl". Book by Peter Høeg, 2006.

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• The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah. And it will worry and feel anxious if it is settled with the people.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Worry, People

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• I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

  John C. Reilly

  Feet, Mind, Littles

  "Interview: John C. Reilly talks Cyrus, torrid romance, and musicals". Interview with Christine Champ, www.mtv.com. June 29, 2010.

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• There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Christian, Joy, Guilt

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• Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

  Hans Selye

  Stress, Survival, Getting Older

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• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Maps, Faces, Unhappiness

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.306, New Directions Publishing

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• My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.

  Jillian Medoff

  Lonely, Life And Love, Sleep

  Jillian Medoff (1997). “Hunger Point: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• There's always some relief in giving up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Giving Up, Giving

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

  Veronica Roth

  Sadness, Empty, Tension

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