“We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.” IfsWantDiesTreeWorriedEaseStressedTotalitySaplings Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.” DiesPleaseEaseIdleSlothIndolenceFlanders Author:Michael Flanders
“Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.” ArtLyingDiesSleepCommonSecurityWitEaseBuriedCarelessSlothMoths Book:Ben Jonson Source: Ben Jonson
“The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot, Or recollected only to gild o'er And add a smile to what was sweet before, He may possess the joys he thinks he sees, Lay his old age upon the lap of ease, Improve the remnant of his wasted span. And having lived a trifler, die a man.” ThinkingMenMayLongAgeJoyDiesSweetAnxietyTradeLaysAddLawyerOld AgeSpotsEaseCharmRetirementShadePantsRefugeLapStatesmenMerchantsRemnants Book:Poems, with a memoir of the author Source: Poems, with a memoir of the author
“One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This is both efficacious and commendable, but it sometimes turns out to be a habit-forming drug. ... Things to which you look forward too long are almost invariably disappointing when you get them, and you might die first anyway.” FirstsLooksLongSometimesMightPainDiesTurnsBeliefEconomyHabitDrugExpectationsEaseCherishDisappointingNarcoticsBetter DaysCommendable Author:Marjorie Hillis
“My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!” WellsDiesWealthPerfectClearPleaseConscienceChiefsEaseDeceitDefenceOffenceBribe Author:Edward Dyer