Abandon Quotes - Page 19

• You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Integrity, Bad Ass, Body

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• Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Objectivity, Tests, Failing

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• We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

  John Eldredge

  Country, Kings, Heart

  "The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life You've Always Dreamed Of".

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• Why didn’t you wake me up?' 'I thought you could use the rest. Besides, you were sleeping like the dead. You even drooled,' he added. 'On my shirt.' Clary‘s hand flew to her mouth. 'Sorry.' 'Its not often you get to see someone drool,' Jace observed. 'Especially with such total abandon. Mouth wide open and everything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sorry, Sleep, Hands

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• For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

  Robert Frost

  Long, Doubt, Belief

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Lanes, Signposts, Ifs

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.64, Delacorte Press

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• So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Thinking, Long

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires...and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Real, People, Mind

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• When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

  Claude Bernard

  Acceptance, Science, Names

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.

  Wendell Berry

  Sleep, Eye, Heart

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.180, Counterpoint Press

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• People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful

  Kim Do-Jin

  People, Needs, Useless

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• God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don't feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!

  Max Lucado

  Love You, Divorce, Lovely

  Max Lucado (2007). “God's Promises for You: Scripture Selections from Max Lucado”, p.25, Thomas Nelson

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• Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Character, Writing, Cutting

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• Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.

  Pope Francis

  Overcoming, Able, Moments

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• The Lord will never forsake or abandon anyone, You may abandon him, but he will not abandon you. You never need to feel that you are alone.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Needs, May, Lord

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• If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Freedom, Fall, Usa

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• Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Age, Saving

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• I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.

  Victoria Scott

  Laughing, Wonder, Feels

  Victoria Scott (2013). “The Collector”, p.22, Macmillan

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• The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Apathy, Retreat

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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

  Justice, Sake, Way

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• Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Mean, Artist, Giving

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• I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

  Dorothy Stang

  Land, Battle, Want

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• Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Broken, Waiting

  Charles F. Stanley (2001). “A Gift of Love: Reflections for the Tender Heart”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

  R. T. Kendall

  Desire, Desire For God

  R. T. Kendall (2008). “The Parables of Jesus: A Guide to Understanding and Applying the Stories Jesus Told”, p.53, Baker Books

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• Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Simple, Way, Faith In God

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