A Quote by Henry Kissinger

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

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Henry Kissinger
American - Statesman
Born: May 27, 1923

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

Jess Bowen

People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.

Lois Gibbs

We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.

Robert Grudin

Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

Margaret Beckett

Garden work clears the mind.

Joanne Harris

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

Anne Michaels

I have an overactive mind and I find that doing exercise clears it.

Ben Fogle

If I don't have to work, I exercise every morning. It really clears my mind.

Lily Aldridge

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Julia Cameron

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

Fred Bear

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller

I love cooking. It's what clears my mind, since it's pretty hard to multitask when you're chopping vegetables.

Katrina Lake

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

Geoffrey Elton

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.

Jim Carroll

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