Tension Quotes

678 Tension quotes by 537 unique authors

Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension will continue. It… — Rajneesh
The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it… — Rajneesh
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. — Norman Mailer
As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions. — Gay Hendricks
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest,… — George Polya
Whenever you drop something by fight, it is never dropped. You can drop smoking by fighting, and then you will start doing something else which… — Rajneesh
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else… — Rajneesh
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -… — Rajneesh
Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with… — Rajneesh
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent to you, it… — Rajneesh
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be… — Rajneesh
Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour,… — Rajneesh
Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness, that we are… — Rajneesh
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. — George Will
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. — Denis Waitley
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and… — William C. Menninger
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.… — Ada Louise Huxtable
Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole… — Martin Nowak
A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the… — John W. Gardner
Danger lurks when we divide ourselves with expressions such as "my private life," "my professional life," or even "my best behavior." Living life in separate… — Russell M. Nelson
Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and… — John C. Maxwell
You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension. — F. Matthias Alexander
When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the… — William Barclay
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,… — Georges Bernanos
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force. — Wendy Beckett

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