Tension Quotes

• The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

  Carl Jung

  Greater

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

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• We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Direct Action, Alive, Surface

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Success, Stress, Live Life

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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, Relief, Empty

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• If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

  George Burns

  Funny, Stress, Humor

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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• It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

  Roger Ballen

  Real, Challenges, Belief

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• You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

  J. Paul Getty

  Stress, Overcoming Adversity, Thrive

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• Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Struggle, Suffering, Life Is

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.

  Susan Branch

  Dream, Magic, Important

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Luxury

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

  William James

  Happiness, Fear, Stress

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• Tension is the great integrity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Spectacular

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• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Time

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• Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

  William James

  Funny, Broken, Habit

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• Music is like a huge release of tension.

  James Taylor

  Release, Music Is, Huge

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

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  I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Inspirational, Thinking, Hot

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• Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

  James Hilton

  People, World, Might

  James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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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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• True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Peace, Kings

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.55, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Funny, Sex

  "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy", 1982.

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• A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.

  Paulo Coelho

  Warrior, Light, Anxiety

  "The Manual of the Warrior of Light". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1997.

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• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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• Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

  Rollo May

  Art, Creativity, Rivers

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Romantic Love, Opportunity, Love Is

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• The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stress, Fiber, Conflict

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