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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. -- Jane Austen
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -- Helen Keller
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. -- Ingrid Bergman
Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals. -- Cindy Crawford
Ease off the martyr throttle. -- Jim Butcher
Ease up, the play is over. -- Horace Greeley
Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. -- Andrew Solomon
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. -- John Milton
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. -- Theodore Parker
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. -- Chuck Close
Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me? -- Nicole Williams
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. -- Edmund Spenser
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please. -- Joseph Conrad
Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please. -- George Crabbe
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. -- Plutarch
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do. -- J. I. Packer
Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain. -- Samuel Johnson
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate. -- Francois Rabelais
Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best. -- Joanna Baillie
Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race. -- Doug Marlette
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. -- Helen Keller
To be at ease is better than to be at business. -- Baltasar Gracian
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. -- Bill Copeland
Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself. -- Terence Stamp
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. -- Jane Austen
Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you. -- Eckhart Tolle
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. -- Winston Churchill
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees -- J. Willard Marriott
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. -- Samuel Johnson
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. -- Frank Knox
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. -- Honore de Balzac
When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that. -- Edie Brickell
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me. -- Michael Gambon
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. -- Corazon Aquino
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. -- Donald Justice
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way. -- Joan Didion
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. -- Armstrong Williams
There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free. -- Russell Crowe
A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels. -- Jerzy Kosinski
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. -- Ben Kingsley
The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree. -- Paul A. Volcker
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next. -- Sarah McLachlan
Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration. -- Samuel Lover
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. -- William Lyon Phelps
It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you. -- Bobby Womack
I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly. -- Leslie Caron
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner. -- Siri Hustvedt
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. -- Thomas Sowell
The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people. -- Jimmy Reid
No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate. -- Robin S. Sharma
I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem. -- Stone Gossard
You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest. -- Brian Blessed
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. -- Wassily Kandinsky
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite. -- Arundhati Roy
I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one who remains - in my case, my mother. How do I make her time smoother, happier? How do I try to ease her, a widow, away from the dark well of grief without dishonoring the necessity of that grief? -- Patti Davis
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad! -- David Bowie
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage. -- J. C. Ryle
Be at ease, not dis-ease. -- Wayne Dyer
Great paines quickly find ease. -- George Herbert
Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease. -- Kris Carr
Enterprise is better than ease. -- Jim Rohn
If you desire ease, forsake learning. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
If you desire ease, forsake learning. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
Thinke of ease, but worke on. -- George Herbert
Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep. -- Torquato Tasso
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. -- John Dryden
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature. -- Walt Whitman
He [Vishous] was all need, no ease. -- J.R. Ward
Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease. -- Sophocles
Only the heart without a stain knows ease. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To ease another's burden, help to carry it. -- Henri Bergson
Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease. -- Judith Orloff
He is not always at ease who laughs. -- Dante Alighieri
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. -- Ambrose Philips
On the floor I am more at ease, -- Jackson Pollock
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. -- William Cowper
I'm not at ease with the word "love." -- David Bowie
I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement. -- Tan Le
Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously. -- Earl Wilson
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. -- Philip Sidney
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also. -- Ovid
Women are never at ease when they have ideas. -- Edmund Gwenn
With how much ease believe we what we wish! -- John Dryden
Be not in the desire of thine own ease. -- Saadi
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. -- Edward Young
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease. -- Frances Wright
I feel alive when I feel ease of heart. -- Michael Franti
You're the kiss that puts my soul at ease. -- Paula Abdul
The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. -- Benjamin Franklin
Stop longing.You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow. -- Robin Hobb
Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. -- Hugh Laurie
The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection. -- David Mamet
The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease. -- Michael Chekhov
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. -- Livy
The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people. -- George Herbert
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books. -- Pat Conroy
Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease. -- Allan Lokos
My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne. -- John Heywood
You shouldn't need an excuse or a way to ease out. -- Andrew W.K.
If you would bee at ease, all the world is not. -- George Herbert
The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love. -- James Cook
Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain. -- Andrew Davidson
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. -- Seneca the Younger
Only With words and people and love you move at ease. -- John Frederick Nims
Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire. -- William Rounseville Alger
Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster -- Jackie Stewart
For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself. -- Cherie Lunghi
If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease. -- Nagarjun

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