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“The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.”

Men Humans Life Is Artist Humanity Passion Healing Poet Sorrow Stress Storm Rejoice Superiority

Book:The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters

Source: The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters

“If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.”

Ifs Humanity Energy Given Bits Lucky Stress Screens Vulnerable Incentives Armor Lucky You

Author:Martha Beck

“It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.”

People Helping Humanity Stress Persistence Helping People Efficacy

Book:Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“All around us people are suffering from stress, fear, sorrow, pain, and fear of future suffering, especially death. None of these are natural to us, because we are eternal spirit souls. Humanity has been controlled through the fear of death.”

People Soul Pain Spirit Suffering Humanity Natural Sorrow Stress Fear Of Death

Author:Terry Cole-Whittaker

“We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'”

Done Shows Humanity Stars Cost Stress Greed Get Away Promiscuity

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.”

Want Should Feelings Might Humanity My Own Music Emotional Stress Jazz Musical Exhibitionism Less Stress

Author:Booker Little

“May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.”

Needs May Humanity Causes Sound Justice Leader Subjects Greatness Particular Integrity Ego Commitment Stress Intelligent Courageous Dedicated Publicity

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.”

Mean Ends Whole Humanity Poor Roles Cost Stress Relation Academic Indispensable Insisting

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.”

Source: Battle for Investment Survival

“As far as he could discover, there were no signs of spring. The decay that covered the surface of the mottled ground was not the kind in which life generates. Last year, he remembered, May had failed to quicken these soiled fields. It had taken all the brutality of July to torture a few green spikes through the exhausted dirt. What the little park needed, even more than he did, was a drink. Neither alcohol nor rain would do. Tomorrow, in his column, he would ask Broken-hearted, Sick-of-it-all, Desperate, Disillusioned-with-tubercular-husband and the rest of his correspondents to come here and water the soil with their tears. Flowers would then spring up, flowers that smelled of feet. "Ah, humanity..." But he was heavy with shadow and the joke went into a dying fall. He trist to break its fall by laughing at himself.”

Life Humanity Fall Nature Change Laughing Sadness Dying Tears Depression Spring Seasons Stress Resistance Torture Soil Decay Joke Plants Miss Lonelyhearts

Book:Miss Lonelyhearts

Source: Miss Lonelyhearts

“Compassion, in its essence, is neutral. It’s holistic that way, and powerful because it yields a much wider perspective free of judgment or stress of any kind. We use it all the time in our work the way we’re always studying humanity intensely — always walking in someone else’s shoes, feeling the seams in their socks, wounds and elations in their souls.”

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Book:The Power of Amie Martine

Source: The Power of Amie Martine