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1 " After a while, they start landing some relief in helicopters, and I guess the napalm bomb have frightened away the gooks. They must of figured that if we was willing to do that to ourselves, then what the hell would we of done to them? They taking the wounded out of there, when along come Sergeant Kranz, hair all singed off, clothes burnt up, looking like he just got shot out of a cannon. "
― Winston Groom , Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)
2 " Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of " one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning. "
3 " The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you’ll find. "
― , Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
4 " The key to Lincoln's famous employment of humor is not that he failed to appreciate the tragic aspects of human existence, but rather that he felt these with such keeness that some relief was required. "
― , Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership
5 " Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me: but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows. "
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
6 " The psychologist Jerome Kagan has argued that parenting has a threshold function: up until that threshold is crossed, the effects of a child's very early experience even out in the end. But parenting that crosses the threshold—abuse, stress, utter indifference—can sink in deep, especially if the baby remains in that environment. There's a lot to be said for this perspective on parenthood, not least that it offers well-meaning parents some relief from scaremongering. It also accounts for the astounding flexibility of the human infant: he is game for the craziest parenting stuff you can come up with. "
― , Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy
7 " It is some relief to weep grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. "
