Leaving Me Quotes - Page 9

• God loves me just as I am today. He knows all my junk....and lack of faith, and he loves me anyway. However, he loves me too much to leave me the way I am.

  Michelle Akers

  Growth, Junk, Today

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• Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. Who could ask for more?

  Lynn Freed

  Wise, Heart, Surprising

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• In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.

  Ann Voskamp

  Counting, Brushes, Thousand

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• I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle... Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight.
  What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.

  Wendell Berry

  Song, Lying, Sight

  Wendell Berry (1998). “A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997”, Counterpoint LLC

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• "Just leave me alone, I want to be alone," she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

  Sarah Mayberry

  Exercise, Doors, Car

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• The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

  Paul Overstreet

  Smile, Romantic, Fall

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• Take me or leave me, I'll never be perfect. Believe me I'm worth it

  Nicki Minaj

  Believe, Humble, Perfect

  Song: Marilyn Monroe, 2012

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• The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spiritual, Eye, Shine On

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• What can my enemies do to me?
  I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden.
  If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me.
  Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa].
  To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada]
  And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha].

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Religious

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• As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Nature, Eye

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• Joseph Smith visited me a great deal after his death, and taught me many important principles. . . . Among other things, he told me to get the Spirit of God; that all of us needed it. . . . He said, "I want you to teach the people to get the Spirit of God. You cannot build up the Kingdom of God without that." . . . But how is it with the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost does not leave me if I do my duty. It does not leave any man who does his duty.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Men, People, Important

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• I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Self, Leaving, Anorexia

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.81, Library of America

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• The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can't talk about that.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, People, World

  "A Conversation With Frank Zappa" by Dave Rothman, in "Oui", April 1979.

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• I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Letting Go, Struggle

  Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.

  Valmiki

  Feet, Tree, Parent

  "The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic". Book by R. K. Narayan, 1972.

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• Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Inner Peace

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• More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life.

  Max Weinberg

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• But if you loved me Why'd you leave me?

  Steve Garrigan

  Love, Honest, Ifs

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• No
  doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it
  leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

  Whitley Strieber

  Doubt, Way, Belief

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• Men leave women for other women. Women leave men for another way of life.

  Larry Brooks

  Men, Way, Men Women

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• Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

  Vivien Leigh

  Yankees, Laughing, Heaven

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• God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

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• But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The producers said no one would believe he would leave me for another woman. They just couldn't see me with him.

  Donna Dixon

  Stars, Believe, Looks

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• Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When you think of all the subtleties that were built into the guitar and amps for you to discover they completely cover the whole lot with a rack of effects. The guitar doesn't need that.

  Jeff Beck

  Thinking, Guitar, Upset

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• To speak only well of Jacques Ranciere is not an easy task, given the positions that the two of us occupy. Perhaps my constant praise might, in fact, be the worst fate that I could have in store for him. Would doing so be precisely the most underhanded way to attack him? If, for example, I were to announce that we are in agreement on a number of important points, how would he take that? Would he rather just as soon change his mind on all those points and leave me behind?

  Jacques Ranciere

  Fate, Agreement, Two

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