Books Quote by Ben Dolnick Download Open image “In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.” — Ben Dolnick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life Like Love Peace Tranquility
“Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Certain human relations are like tension between the threads of a rope, that only relax when broken.” — Tushar Kalawatia Copy Share Image
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. — Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
“Tranquility is a rare state in a society is impacted by the constant need for action or reaction.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
Tranquility is a choice. So is anxiety. The entire world around us may be in turmoil. But if we want to be peaceful within,… — RVM Copy Share Image
Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once we learn to stably regulate our attention, we can be fully present in our joy, compassion, and love; in turn, we can deny… — Kyle Parton Copy Share Image
Tension is a lock which leads to two doors: Success and Depression. Now it's up to you which path will you take after unlocking… — TheSaintsays Copy Share Image
“We are, therefore, seeking how the mind can follow a smooth and steady course, well disposed to itself, happily regarding its own condition and… — Seneca Copy Share Image
There are interesting tensions that will naturally occur with any relationship. No matter what setting, what era, the tension is very, very real. It's… — Lyriq Bent Copy Share Image
“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn of an author's existence and find out that we ought to have been reading him or her all along. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share
Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim that occasionally… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex. Put in… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all:… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
