Drains Quotes - Page 12

• If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Useless

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• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Gratitude, Sky, Cake

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• People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Levels

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• Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There are boys out there who look for shining girls; they will stand next to you and say quiet things in your ear that only you can hear and that will slowly drain the joy out of your heart. The books about vampires are true, baby. Drive a stake through their hearts and run away.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Running, Baby

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• People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snakes, People, Energy

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• Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Strong, Attitude

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• When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

  Hal Borland

  Running, Thinking, Rivers

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• People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Want, Tickets

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• There are primarily two ways people can drain your energy. They can get you to want them or what they have or they can get you to fear them. In order to drain you they must get into your attention field.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, Order, People

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• Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Distance, Eye, Long

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• Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Exercise, Yeast

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• It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?

  Cheryl Richardson

  Encouragement, Clothes, Energy

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• My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.

  William J. Clinton

  Memories, Father, Should Have

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• O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Running, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.228, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Retirement, Children

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• He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Errors, Long

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.74

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• Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near future....So what is the rest of your future? A grisly list of unpleasant events -- exploding inflation, price controls, erosion of your savings (eventually to nothing), a collapse of private as well as government pension programs, and eventually an international monetary holocaust which will sweep all paper currencies down the drain and turn the world upside down.

  Howard Ruff

  Erosion, Government, Holocaust

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• Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Self, Envy, Energy

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• We do ritualistic animal sacrifice. We host orgies on our trampoline, every other Sunday. You didn't get our Twitter feed on that? I'm really sorry! And then, every once in awhile, we run through the city and drain people and drink their blood. It's really very romantic.

  Anna Paquin

  Running, Sorry, Sunday

  Source: collider.com

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• We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

  Anneli Rufus

  Eye, Degrees, World

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• You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Broken Heart, Pain

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy: An American Novel!”, p.168, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)

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• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

  A. P. Herbert

  Business, Government, Giving Money

  1931 'Too Much!'.

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• Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Common, Courtesy, Common Courtesy

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.77, Vintage Canada

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• Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

  Terry Goodkind

  Eye, Self, Connections

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.12, Head of Zeus

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