Leaving Quotes

• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Learning, Community

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Goodbye

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• Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Life, Change, Travel

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• Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

  Terry Pratchett

  Change, Travel, Life Changing

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Fear, Failure

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

  Jan Myrdal

  Travel, Eye, Vacation

  Jan Myrdal (1980). “The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu”, Orion

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• You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

  Immortal Technique

  Past, Technique, Immortal

  Song: Leaving The Past, 2003

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• If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

  Mo Willems

  Self, Stories, Situation

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• Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Love, Real, Way

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.569, Macmillan

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• I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, World, Rich

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• Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

  Carl Sandburg

  Doors, Closing Up, Poetry

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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• Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Betrayal

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• A true gentleman never leaves his lady.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Women, Gentleman, Ladies Man

  "Goodbye Mr Juventus" by Luca Cetta, www.football-italia.net. May 23, 2012.

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• I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  Cam Newton

  Song, Believe, Mind

  Source: www.vibe.com

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• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Goodbye, Lonely

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

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• Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, Adventure, Times Are Changing

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

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• There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.

  Ellen Goodman

  Sad Love, Letting Go, Jobs

  "Ellen Goodman writes of letting go in her final column" by Ellen Goodman, www.washingtonpost.com. January 1, 2010.

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• When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Effort, Should, Bonfire

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Dance, Running

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• Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

  George Sanders

  Suicide, Sweet, Good Luck

  "Oscars: The Sad Stories of 9 Acting Nominees Who Committed Suicide" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2014.

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• Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Happiness, Running, Caring

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• Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

  Phil Ochs

  Girlfriend, America, Twenties

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.

  Scott Speedman

  Signing

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• In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

  Al Roker

  Baby, Anger, Kids

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