Quotes on Tension

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

Tension is the great integrity.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

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

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.