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Tag Name "Abandon" (501)

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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Laozi
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I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.
Robert Owen
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Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
Denise Levertov
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I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.
Kelly Link
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He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could stop an avalanche.
Colleen Houck
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One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.
Paulo Coelho
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
Antonio Porchia
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Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
Susan Orlean
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If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.
Robin Oliveira
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As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
Oswald Chambers
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Forget all you know or think you know Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.
Wayland Drew
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Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.
Barbara Sher
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The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
Nat Wolff
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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
Nhat Hanh
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It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.
Wynonna Judd
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It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.
Paulo Coelho
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We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.
Pope Francis
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Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in a state of sin but His angel never abandons us. . . He is our most sincere and faithful friend even when we sadden him with our bad behavior.
Pio of Pietrelcina
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...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we boast that we acquired them through our own efforts or that they were passed on to us as an inheritance. I say nothing is ours except what is in our hearts, what belongs to our souls, what cannot be taken away by anyone.
John Cassian
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The fastest way to attain courage is to follow the chosen Way and be willing to abandon life itself for the sake of justice.
Mas Oyama
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India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
Jawaharlal Nehru
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You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.
Paulo Coelho
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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Ernst Mach
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