Relieved Quotes

• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

  Christopher Morley

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving, Resentment, Burden

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 21, 2015

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• At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

  John Green

  Letting Go, Hurt, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.15, Penguin

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• I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

  Halle Berry

  Feelings, Trying, Hardship

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• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.53, Vintage

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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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• In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Political, Majority, United States

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.18

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• True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

  Daniel Goleman

  Pain, Mean, Helping Others

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• This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Ignorance, Rights

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• ...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them - occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.

  Michelle Richmond

  Moving, Thinking, Despair

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• Thankfulness
  can reduce stress in your life by making you more content with who you
  are and what you have. If you make a habit of accepting every
  circumstance gratefully and assuming there is a purpose in it, you'll be
  relieved from the worry and anxiety that go with being resentful and
  dissatisfied.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Stress, Worry, Anxiety

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• A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

  Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

  War, Frustration, Men

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• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Heart, Gay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

  David Foster Wallace

  Loneliness, Fiction

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• I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.

  Susan Boyle

  Understanding, Brain, Labels

  "Susan Boyle: my relief at discovering that I have Asperger's". www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Hearts don't often break even. One person is usually more hurt while the other is more relieved.

  M. Leighton

  Hurt, Heart, Break Even

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• I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

  George Carlin

  Death, Suicide, Humorous

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.

  Philip Roth

  Thinking, Exhibitionism, Awful

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.

  Jan Struther

  Happiness, Holiday, One Day

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.3, Prabhat Prakashan

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• We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.

  Jesse Jackson

  Thinking, White, Issues

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• What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

  Lisa See

  Loss, Past, Longing

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• Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Desperate, Cures

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Inspiring, Mother, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

  Bill Nye

  Moon, People, Orbit

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• I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Order, Giving

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