Chasing Quotes - Page 15

• The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Horse, Hands, Breathing

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.12, Rodale

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• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

  Milarepa

  Running, Dog, Lions

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• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

  Milarepa

  Running, Dog, Sticks

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• The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Running, Light, Darkness

  Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.33, Zondervan

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• Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Baseball, Kids, Chasing Rainbows

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• I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream

  Tori Amos

  Daughter, Dark, Ice Cream

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• Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Missing, Risk

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.125, Penguin

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• Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Positive Thinking, Knowing, Safety

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• A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"

  Linda Ellerbee

  Dog, Yelling, Play

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• After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.

  Tony Lema

  Golf, Dating, Firsts

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• I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls - I was chasing girls all the time - and so I thought if I join it, there might be some love scenes. And there was a particular girl and I thought I might get to kiss Amy. I never did get to kiss Amy but I did get to kiss Elizabeth Taylor, so it was all right, a lot later.

  Michael Caine

  Girl, Kissing, Amy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.

  Kevin Ollie

  Basketball, Life Lesson, Player

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.

  Kenneth Koch

  Beach, Passion, Hands

  Kenneth Koch (1982). “Days and nights”, Random House (NY)

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• If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams.

  J. B. Bernstein

  Running, Dream, Might

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• Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life. And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Home, Heart, Ambition

  "Interview: Danielle LaPorte | The Desire Map". Interview with Kristen Noel, bestselfmedia.com. February 23, 2015.

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• You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Light

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• And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

  Dorothy Parker

  Poet

  'Here Lies' (1939) 'The Little Hours'

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• Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

  Gladys Taber

  Cat, Practice, Bird

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• If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Death, Future

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.

  John Elway

  Running, Nfl, Guy

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• I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Dream, Reality

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
  
  Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Time, Reality, Thinking

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• I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me. It makes me laugh because I've done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I'm not your typical music video model.

  Megan Fox

  Smart, People, Laughing

  "Megan Fox hair color change on set of Teenage Ninja Turtles 2 movie" by nationalledger.com, May 14, 2015.

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• I haven't had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

  Aimee Mullins

  Dream, Responsibility, People

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• I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.

  Sharon Stone

  Real, Kids, Thinking

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