Draining Quotes

76 quotes by 67 authors

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible. — Timothy Keller
If you have a sense that anyone is draining your energy, mentally cut the etheric psychic cord between you and the other person. Be willing… — Doreen Virtue
Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You… — N.D. Wilson
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have… — Edna O'Brien
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining. — Laura Mvula
The signs of psychic draining - we call aging. — Frederick Lenz
The way people age is not the way people age ... everyone is draining everyone! — Frederick Lenz
If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing. — Frederick Lenz
When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see. — Frederick Lenz
How can you tell if you are draining someone? How far have you gotten into their life? Are they dependent upon you? Are you thinking… — Frederick Lenz
If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a "double reverse." They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just… — Frederick Lenz
Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of… — Frederick Lenz
Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people. — Frederick Lenz
Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the… — Ezekiel Emanuel
It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to… — Puff Daddy
Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as… — Sandra Newman
We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. This might mean emptying our life… — Christine Caine
I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining. — Erin O'Connor
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying… — Keith Henson

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