Best 116 quotes in «tension quotes» category

The tension between not being let in and not being let go fixes us. Especially when it's the not-being-let-in that won't let you go. You're held at the threshold. You're turned away, but you can't turn away.

The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.

The wife's list, no matter how long or short, communicates to the husband, "I don't like you. I don't accept you. But if you perform the way I think you should, then I will like and accept you." And no matter how long the husband's list may be, it says in like manner to his wife, "I don't like you either. But if you stop caring about things so much, if you stop feeling the way you feel and noticing the things you notice, then I will accept and like you.

The world's only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.

They had become, year by year, month by month, mysterious to her, her love for them an extended pain, a web or field of force, of which she felt at times the almost breaking tension.

Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.

Thought must learn to move freely and effortlessly between the sphere of pure chaos, in which all things originate, but which also harbors the danger of madness, and the sphere of fully individuated substances, facts, and states of affairs, which harbors the danger of ossification and listlessness.

We’re prone to totally deny something that is abused, because it’s easier than handling it. I’ve noticed that truth is very rarely found in the extremes, in the black and white - you’ll usually find it right in the middle, in the gray. It’s just much harder to find that way. We’re lazy; however, and we’ll take the ten step program or the list of rules before we do the dirty, difficult work of prayer, meditation and study that comes with living in the tension. It’s always easier to default to an extreme than it is to find the buried, messy truth that is found in living in the already and the not yet - in the tension.

We all know what’s coming. The winds are picking up, spiralling closer and bringing with it a great wave of destruction…none of us can hide…no matter which side you choose, you’ll be dragged into the line of fire and who’s to say, my friend, which of us will come out alive?

Whenever you feel tension mounting up, just smile: you will break the force of tension.

What are you going to do, Luca?' I clenched my fists at my sides. 'Pull a gun on me?' 'If that's what it takes.' 'How brave!' I exploded. We were so close to one another now. 'You can't use your words. but you're more than happy to use your gun.' 'I'm not going to be responsible for ruining your innocence!' I tilted my face towards him to show I wasn't afraid, or as innocent as he clearly thought. 'Go ahead,' I whispered. 'Shatter it.' We were nose to nose. 'It almost worked last time, when you told me about my dad.' 'I don't care,' he replied resolutely. 'I'm not punching Bambi in the face.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

Whether we know it or choose to admit it, we are either an Encourager or a Discourager. We each make a choice as to which type we will be… every day. Discouragers bring “stresspools.” I call any of those places that add unnecessary stress and aggravation “stresspools.” They are just as stinky and rotten as cesspools, but “stresspools” wreak of tension, strain, anxiety, worry, hassle, pressure, and emotional trauma.

You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

You know, stealing someone’s kill is bad form,” he complained, cutting through the quiet tension.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

Hollywood doesn't trust me, and we don't really mix. When a movie has stars, everything in the budget goes up, even the catering costs. I just don't like the process of having Suits all around, so I prefer casting unknowns. It adds another level of tension - you don't quite know what to expect from them. My movies don't even need that much money.

I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

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.

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.