Michael Chekhov
Actor, Director
"An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease."
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Ease
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William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction"
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained."
Allen Ginsberg
Poet, Activist
"Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow."
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"Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society."
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"True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease."
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"More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else."
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"Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it."
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"The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up."
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"To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness."
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"Kindness eases change Love quiets fear"
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"It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility."
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"The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one."
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"And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification"
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"Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you."
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"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
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"I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still."
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"Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously."
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"They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are."
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"Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question."
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"We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease."
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"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
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"The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside."
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"Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption."
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