What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time,… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
The Catholic community, with many others, has long worked for this new commitment on global health and debt relief (President George W.… — John Ricard Copy Share Image
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief? — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist.… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Every movie I get involved with I get involved in as big a level as I possibly can, but this has been… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time.… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image