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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
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life. -- Sufjan Stevens
The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded. -- Lisa Cholodenko
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out. -- Mehmet Oz
I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary. -- Melanie Lynskey
The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. -- Loudon Wainwright III
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. -- Joshua L. Liebman
Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension. -- Russell M. Nelson
One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good -- Albert Einstein
Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being. -- Donald Curtis
To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey. -- Crowder
...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him. -- Ian Fleming
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life. -- Brennan Manning
A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything. -- Joan Erikson
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. -- Mark Kozelek
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest. -- Helen Steiner Rice
Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York. -- Anais Nin
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations. -- Richard L. Evans
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today's life. -- Matthew Weiner
Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different. -- Brian Tracy
The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension. -- Kate Bush
Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life. -- Will Self
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido. -- William S. Burroughs

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