Tension Quotes - Page 39

• Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body.

  Simone Elkeles

  Relaxation, Ease, Body

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Philosophy, Struggle, Life Is

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

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• Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

  Edmund Hillary

  Dangerous Situations, Laughing, Important

  "Forbes To The Limits: Pushing Yourself to the Edge - in Adventure and in Business". Book by James M. Clash, 2003.

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• My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Giving, Relief

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• A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Suffering, Energy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1949). “Truth and Fantasy from My Life”

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• It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Cutting, Touching, Humanity

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your mind. What do you need to let go of? Take a deep breath, relax, and say to yourself, 'I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all tension. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.'

  Louise Hay

  Letting Go, Sadness, Mind

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jul 22, 2015

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• In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

  Christine Vachon

  Directors, Honest, Film

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• As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.

  John Oliver

  Earth, Should, Sentences

  "John Oliver Brilliantly Eviscerates Police Militarization in Ferguson". "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver, mic.com. August 18, 2014.

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• I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Stress, Impact, Relax

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• Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

  Eminem

  Love, Feel Good, Mics

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• Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

  Brian Eno

  Emotional, Listening, Important

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• The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

  John W. Gardner

  Age, Hallmark, Institutions

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• When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

  Nhat Hanh

  Letting Go, Heal Itself, Giving

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

  Allen Klein

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

  Georg Simmel

  Moments, Revelations, Secrecy

  Georg Simmel, Otthein Rammstedt (2008). “Gesamtausgabe”

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• In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Thinking, People

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.178, University of Michigan Press

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• Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

  Peter Tork

  Disco Music, Heavy Metal, Pops

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• Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Tolerance, Vines

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• Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

  Dr. Seuss

  Country, Children, Book

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• I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving Up, Two, Balance

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• Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Music, Art, Writing

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• One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

  Byron Nelson

  Break Up, Deep Breathing, Way

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• Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

  Andy Stanley

  Men, Soul, Vision

  Andy Stanley (2001). “Visioneering”, Multnomah

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• War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  War, Rights, Erosion

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