(362 quotes found)
“Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.”
Woody Allen
“Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being”
Donald Curtis
“We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.”
Joan Borysenko
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.”
Rollo May
“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right”
Ellen Goodman
“"Dread is the first and strongest of the...kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that comes when you know there is something to fear but you have not yet identified what it is. The fear that comes when you first realize that your spouse should have been home hours ago; when you hear a strange sound in the baby's bedroom; when you realize that a window you are sure you closed is now open, the curtains billowing, and you're alone in the house.”
Orson Scott Card
“The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.”
Anatole Broyard
“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.”
Erich Fromm
“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
