The way people age is not the way people age. . . everyone is draining everyone!
When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east. " That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not.
Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see.
Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse. As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.
In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.
There's often times a big difference between what you actually thoughtfelt in a situation and what you think you thoughtfelt. You have to do a lot of work to make your thoughtsfeelings possible to be understood by other people. It's very draining, though also cathartic.
When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
If you have a sense that anyone is draining your energy, mentally cut the etheric psychic cord between you and the other person. Be willing to forgive that other person for seemingly draining you, and release the other person fully to the light, now. Completely let go of focusing on personalities of other people and ourselves, and focus, instead, on the true oneness of your spirit.
It is necessary to bring our life in order, to examine each thing, and ask ourselves if it is bringing power into our life or if it is draining us. Ask yourself, is your life taking power from you or adding power to you?
One thing I'm with Trump on is the political correctness in this country. It's draining.
When you give of yourself, it's draining.
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms. . . between teachers and learners. That is fundamental. '. . . 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
