Given Up Quotes - Page 11

• No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Disappointment, Long, Expectations

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1956). “The God of All Comfort”, p.206, CCEL

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• How many people have gotten older and forgotten about the things they hoped for and dreamed about when they were young? Or given up without ever taking a chance, or settled in life because it's easier, or they're scared, or whatever other excuses? How many people need a reminder of who they once were?

  Jessi Kirby

  People, Needs, Chance

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• I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

  Clara Schumann

  Ideas, Creative, Desire

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• If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.

  Esther Perel

  Order, One Day, Lost

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• The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

  David Richo

  Believe, Opposites, Despair

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Teenager, Humor

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• I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Long, House

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4341, Manonmani Publishers

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• We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

  Chris Matthews

  Israel, Roles, Honest

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• I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Ambition, Past

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• As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Home, Years

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• I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

  George Sand

  Mother, Grief, Thinking

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• ...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for the government...They were depriving the free world of its most valuable weapon in condemning and exposing the worst human scourge since Nazism: the targeting and murder of civilians to achieve political and religious ends.

  Naomi Ragen

  Religious, Government, Self

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• Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Taken, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.59, Advaita Ashrama

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• The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Men, People

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• Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

  Socrates

  Grieving, Self, Acting

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• Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  New Year, Years, People

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2014

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• Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually.

  Mark Tooley

  Cities, America, People

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• I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.

  Patrick deWitt

  Heart, Night, Thinking

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books

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• I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Animal, Men, Perfection

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• The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

  W. H. Auden

  Ideas, Catholic, Religion

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• President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth.

  Jon Stewart

  Mean, President, Mars

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• The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

  Joey Santiago

  Believe, Night, Bed

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• I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

  Anna Held

  Trying, Use, Given

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• Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried

  Terry Fox

  Giving Up, Cancer, Years

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• Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.

  Hesketh Pearson

  God, Believe, Men

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