Alleviate Quotes

• We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suffering, Working Together, Together

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.159, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

  Paul Farmer

  Suffering, Tools, Moral

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sympathy, Condolences, Wine

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• The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

  Anne Lamott

  Acceptance, Reality, Uncomfortable Situations

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.178, Anchor

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• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Hurt, Truth

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.412, Wordsworth Editions

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• To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

  Tryon Edwards

  Sympathy, Grief, Grieving

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.295

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• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Suffering, Benefits

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• The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Life, Science, Goal

  "Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations". Book edited by Peter McDonald, p. 9, 2004.

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• It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

  Tim Bishop

  Pain, Trying, Cost

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• In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families.

  John M. McHugh

  Stress, Troops, Helping

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• Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Agreement, America, Income

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• My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Home, Race, Long

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• What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

  Paracelsus

  Physicians, Disease, Cures

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

  John L. Lewis

  Tired, Rights, Agony

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

  Natalie Portman

  Technology, Tools, News

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• The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Essence, Suffering Of Others

  Dalai Lama (2012). “Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World”, p.11, Random House

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• Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

  Laurence Sterne

  Affliction, Remove, Misfortunes

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• There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beautiful, Girl, Real

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• The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Appreciation, Causes, Misery

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.260, Transaction Publishers

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• In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

  John C. Dvorak

  Fun, Science, Technology

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• Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Mind, Relief

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

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• I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

  Rebecca Lee Crumpler

  Opportunity, Suffering Of Others, African American

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• I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

  Sting

  Pain, Knowledge, Thinking

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• Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Soul, Suffering

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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