198 Quotes About Ease

Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.

In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success

She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted and be totally accepted. She remembered how easy it had all been, how open and bright, like being in a whitewashed room with all the windows wide open.

Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals that have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face live cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness and Beauty. -Albert Einstein

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.

Work is easy when it’s full of meaning and shared with others.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.