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• I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

  Stone Gossard

  Fitness, Self Esteem, Cancer

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• As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Reading, Desire

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.391

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• The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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• Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Ideas, Mind, Together

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• Ease leads to habit, as success to ease.
  He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

  George Crabbe

  Habit, Live By, Please

  George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.37

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• Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Stupidity, Society, World

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• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

  Alexander Pope

  Dance, Art, Moving

  "The Works of Alexander Pope".

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• Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

  J. Willard Marriott

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Light, Neglect, Satisfied

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.259, Macmillan

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• Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

  Armstrong Williams

  Sports, Confidence, Dream

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• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Time, Not Giving Up

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

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• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Four

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

  Terence Stamp

  Trying

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• God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

  Frank Knox

  Family, Heaven, Bed

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• You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Lying, Heaven, Bed

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• If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Men, Thinking

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Happiness”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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• Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

  Dylan Thomas

  Vanity, Upset, Ordinary

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

  William Cowper

  Life, Happiness, Easy

  William Cowper (1815). “Poems”, p.290

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• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Knowing

  "Four Years After the Oprah-Eckhart Tolle Web Class, What I Still Can Learn" by Meryl Davids Landau, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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