Easeful Quotes & Sayings

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children — Adrian Rogers

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom. — Madeleine L'Engle

Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever. — Marcus Samuelsson

If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing. — Swami Satchidananda

Miracle woman ... Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness. — Donald Evans

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece. — Gillian Anderson

For many a time I have been half in love with easeful death. Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, to take into the air my quiet breath — John Keats

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death. — John Keats

Yes, I've lost him. But I don't have to lose myself. — Lenore Appelhans

A joke a day keeps the gloom away! — Cesar Romero

Life is mental; it's all about attitude. The majority of it is lived in your head. — Richelle E. Goodrich

May answers come to me by easeful attraction rather than stressful pursuit, and may all beings benefit from these inquiries. — Gay Hendricks

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence. — William Allen White

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me. — Charles Krauthammer

She was so cold, she probably farted ice cubes. — Cara Lynn Shultz

To be engulfed: outburst of annihilation which affects the amorous subject in despair or fulfillment. At its best, when it's fulfillment, it's a kind of disappearance at will. An easeful death. Death liberated from dying. — Roland Barthes

If the moment is everthing, then everything is time. — Benny Bellamacina

In idyllic small towns I sometimes see teenagers looking out of place in their garb of desperation, the leftover tatters and stains and slashes of the fashion of my youth. For this phase of their life, the underworld is their true home, and in the grit and underbelly of a city they could find something that approximates it. Even the internal clock of adolescents changes, making them nocturnal creatures for at least a few years. All through childhood you grow toward life and then in adolescence, at the height of life, you begin to grow toward death. This fatality is felt as an enlargement to be welcomed and embraced, for the young in this culture enter adulthood as a prison, and death reassures them that there are exits. "I have been half in love with easeful death," said Keats who died at twenty-six and so were we, though the death we were in love with was only an idea then. — Rebecca Solnit

The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver's wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and leaves you feeling so free you'll want to do cartwheels on the beach. But don't be fooled by the simplicity of this message. Look no further for an easeful path to enlightenment infused with rapture and hope, which comes as much needed medicine for the soul. — Lissa Rankin