Quotes About Relief
Este Sr. Nádegas, pai destes três, era um homem bem reputado, apesar de certos maliciosos afirmarem que ele tinha o hábito intestino de jogar fast and loose; e às vezes agoniava-se, o que se atribuía a ter sido mordido por uma tarântula. Tocar gaita-de-foles, de alguma forma, aliviava-o.
~ Jonathan Swift
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I will speak that I may find relief"; for there is a redemptive quality for an agitated mind in the spoken word, and a tormented soul finds peace in confessing.
~ Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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All of those cases were clearly marked on the side in English: U.S.A. FOOD RELIEF It was indeed the very same food donated by Americans to Japan before the war. The Japanese military government had stolen it from their own hungry people.
~ Joseph Bruchac
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The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
~ A. A. Milne
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Sometimes a spouse, in trying to relieve a partner's distress, accomplishes just the opposite.
~ AARON T. BECK
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Being the firstborn gives you great patience. But you reach a point where after trying and trying you say, Patience be damned. Let them suffer their distorted worldview. Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you know you owe them nothing.
~ Abraham Verghese
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious." "God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
~ Abraham Verghese
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by"—her voice broke as she thought of Sister Mary Joseph Praise—"by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
~ Abraham Verghese
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by"—her voice broke as she thought of Sister Mary Joseph Praise—"by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace." The
~ Abraham Verghese
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God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
~ Abraham Verghese
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The other day someone I know posted a quote from the poet Mary Oliver, "Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" And I almost began to cry. I kept thinking of how scared I've been, how scared many of us have been during these years of the pandemic. And of course, it's not just the pandemic, so many overwhelming fears. I read that quote and I suddenly longed for breath. For relief. For the end of fear.
~ Ada Limón
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The perspiring of drops of blood is a known, but rare medical condition called hematidrosis. It is thought to be caused by intense anxiety when our body's fight-or-flight mechanism narrows the capillaries to prepare us for actions in the face of fear. If the fear is suddenly relieved, the capillaries dilate and, in some cases, rupture, leaving blood entering the sweat glands. It might actually be a sign of a very rapid relief from anxiety.1
~ Adam Hamilton
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There is so much drivel about psychoactive meds, so much corruption, bad faith, over- and underprescription, vagueness, profiteering, ignorance, and hope, that it's easy to forget they sometimes work, alleviating real suffering, at least for a time. This was such a time. I
~ Adam Haslett
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It was a relief to decide you didn't have to decide. It was a relief to have faith in immutability, a relief to lose faith in your ability to change something, even when it was something you'd wish you could change. It was a relief to be imposed on intractably. Acceptance, if not brave, was at least a relief. That was the trick of it.
~ Adam Levin
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Do not imagine that you, of all the Jews, will escape with your life by being in the king's palace. 14On the contrary, if you keep silent in this crisis, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another quarter, while you and your father's house will perish. And who knows, perhaps you have attained to royal position for just such a crisis.
~ Adele Berlin
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23Whenever the [evil] spirit of God came upon Saul, David would take the lyre and play it;a Saul would find relief and feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.
~ Adele Berlin
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28When Lamech had lived 182 years, he begot a son. 29And he named him Noah, saying, "This one will provide us relief * from our work and from the toil of our hands, out of the very soil which the Lord placed under a curse." 30After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and begot sons and daughters. 31All the days of Lamech came to 777 years; then he died. 32When Noah had lived 500 years, Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
~ Adele Berlin
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Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
~ Adlai Stevenson I
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Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.
~ Adriana Trigiani
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When someone tells me a piece of the truth which has been withheld from me, and which I needed in order to see my life more clearly, it may bring acute pain, but it can flood me with a cold, sea-sharp wash of relief.
~ Adrienne Rich
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We lie under the sheet after making love, speaking of loneliness relieved in a book relived in a book so on that page the clot and fissure of it appears words of a man in pain a naked word entering the clot a hand grasping through bars: deliverance What happens between us has happened for centuries we know it from literature still it happens sexual jealousy outflung hand beating bed dryness of mouth after panting there are books that describe all this and they are useless
~ Adrienne Rich
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Sometimes, I actually feel good when I get a penalty, because I get to rest for two minutes - hopefully just two minutes.
~ Chris Pronger
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THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTION Sometimes, exhausted with toil and endeavour, I wish I could sleep for ever and ever; but then this reflection my longing allays: I shall be doing it one of these days.
~ Piet Hein
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common people, who, in any difficult crisis and great exigency, ever look for relief rather to strange and extravagant than to reasonable means
~ Plutarch
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