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Quotes About Relief

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Oh, yeah. If there's one thing I'm good for, it's comic relief.
~ Shannon McKenna
What should I say about reading? I consider a room without reading to be a hell without consolation, a gibbet without relief, a prison without light, a tomb without a vent … . —Peter of Celle, On Affliction and Reading 8—13 PL 202
~ Sharan Newman
I cannot control who was going to come, and who was going to go, and who will stay my buddy, my pal, and who'll find me enchanting, and oddly I feel relieved.
~ Sharon Creech
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn't dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Assumptions block direct experience and prevent us from gathering information that could bring us comfort and relief, or information that, though saddening and painful, will allow us to make better decisions.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Syn opened a door to their right. Sumi? Get in here and let Hauk know that you're okay. I can't do anything with this unreasonable, surly bastard. He's not unreasonable. He's just fierce.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?
~ Elton John
When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.
~ Simon R. Green
Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.
~ Sinead O'Connor
I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.
~ Jon Lovitz
When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
~ Laura Carmichael
George!" he said, the relief evident in his voice. "Are you all right?" "No! I am not!" George replied with considerable spirit. "I have a whacking great arrow stuck through my arm and it hurts like the very dickens! How could anybody be all right in those circumstances?
~ John Flanagan
Gail Bonneville's chair squeaked noisily as she leaned all the way back and stretched to relieve the kink that now owned space between her shoulder blades. With her feet up on her desk,
~ John Gilstrap
A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
~ John Gray
At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.
~ John Green
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
~ John Green
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
~ John Jay Chapman
Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wherefore if you have a pain it is evident that you have a thought. To be rid of the pain stop thinking.
~ John Kendricks Bang
A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes feelings of humility and regret.
~ John Lamberton Harper
Petunia only ever went to the doctor reluctantly, and her motive in doing so was always the same: she did it in order to feel less anxious about things. The doctor was supposed to make the worry go away; she did quite enough worrying without actually having something to worry about. When she came out feeling no less anxious, as this time, something had gone wrong. The basic contract had been broken.
~ John Lanchester
To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end, where there is no authority to decide between the contenders) is one great reason of men's putting themselves into society, and quitting the state of nature: for where there is an authority, a power on earth, from which relief can be had by appeal, there the continuance of the state of war is excluded, and the controversy is decided by that power.
~ John Locke
time. You can repeat this process as many times as necessary for three or four days, but if the problem persists its time to seek appropriate medical advice. No Drug Pain Relief Obviously you can use over the counter or prescription anti-inflammatory medications for pain relief but you must keep in mind that they could have nasty side effects, including digestive upset. The good
~ John McArthur
To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff, formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes.
~ John McGahern