Ends Quotes - Page 28

• Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.

  Teresa of Avila

  Dream, Struggle, One Day

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• One of the suckiest and most frustrating facts of life is that sometimes relationship just end, often without reason. I truly believe that sometimes both men and women simply run out of love, even when there was a lot of it in the beginning

  Greg Behrendt

  Running, Believe, Men

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.28, Harmony

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• Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings
  more satisfaction in the end.

  Megan Hart

  Goal, Perfection, Satisfaction

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• Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Unique, Reality

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  People, Baghdad, East

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• I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Mind, Ashes, Want

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• The words you can't find, you borrow.
  We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
  My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
  We are not quite novels.
  The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
  We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
  In the end, we are collected works.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Heart, Stories

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• Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

  Alain de Botton

  Running, Animal, Space

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• In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

  Mason Cooley

  World, Busy

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• The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the rules. Or bend them. The story doesn't have to end. You can stay in this world, this world you love, as long as you want, as long as you keep thinking of new stories.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Thinking, Play, Long

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• Consciousness will always be present, though a particular
  consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile
  consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when
  the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are
  influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will
  cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will
  always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Attachment, Body

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• I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

  Hayley Williams

  Struggle, Tired, Trying

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• You just be honest about who you are, and if you dont end up with any friends, then good for you.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Honest

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• I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Trying, Literature

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• The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Lying, Goal, Rejection

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• To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

  Robert Motherwell

  Beautiful, Canvas, Empty

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• But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

  Billy Bragg

  Girl, Country, Song

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• My way is set as in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home.

  Patrick Carman

  Taken, Home, Fighting

  Patrick Carman (2011). “Stargazer”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

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• All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

  A. E. Waite

  Law, Humanity, Development

  Arthur Edward Waite (2003). “Devil-Worship in France: With Diana Vaughn and the Question of Modern Palladism”, p.219, Weiser Books

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• Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Thinking, Results, Believer

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• I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.

  Roger Sherman

  Believe, Taken, Punishment

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• It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Romance, Century, Prose

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology: The Age of Chivalry”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Country, Men, Swings

  Harvard Law Review, June 1919

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• A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.

  Andrew Klavan

  Rocks, Harder, Exception

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• Life's funny chucklehead. You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something-something that really matters-in the end you die for nothing.

  Andrew Klavan

  Giving, Want, Matter

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