Running Away Quotes - Page 12

• As long as you're running away from a part of yourself, you can't see immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Yoga, Long

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• To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Desire

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• You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Running, Psychics

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• Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.

  Rashad Evans

  Running, Fighting, Hard Times

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• Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't have told you but you'll not worry any more if you know I'm in it than if you think I am. Have had the most strenuous work of my life, am very tired but otherwise absolutely in good condition physically mentally and morally.

  Harry S. Truman

  Running, Tired, Men

  Letter to Bess Wallace, September 8, 1918.

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• How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Summer, Running

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• If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.

  Richard Rohr

  Running, Hurt, Pain

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• Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

  Rollo May

  Running, Wrestling, Artist

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• The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Running, Disappointment, Pumpkin

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• Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Running, Inspiration, Practice

  Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Fall, Men

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

  Johnny Mercer

  Running, Children, Wine

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• Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Running, Stars

  W. B. Yeats, “The Young Man's Song”

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• Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

  Sara Gruen

  Running, Circus, Guilty Conscience

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.310, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

  Ellen Sussman

  Running, Order, Sometimes

  Ellen Sussman (2011). “French Lessons”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.

  Laurie Notaro

  Running, Saws, Enough

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• But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

  Louise Penny

  Running, Comfort, Firsts

  Louise Penny (2013). “How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.118, Macmillan

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• The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.

  Peter Zumthor

  Running, Art, Father

  "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.

  Diosdado Macapagal

  Running, Tables, Sat

  "World: Common Man's President". During campaign stops in 1961, Time, content.time.com. November 24, 1961.

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• I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.

  Leslie Mann

  Running, Girlfriend, Husband

  "Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd Talk THIS IS 40, Turning 40 Themselves, and Preparing for Awkward Scenes". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 16, 2012.

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• To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Running, Modern Life, Danger

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.16, Oscar Wilde

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• Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

  Sheryl Lee

  Mother, Running, Naked

  "The Bliss of Being Sheryl Lee / The career of `Twin Peaks' ' famous corpse has come alive on screen". Interview with Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 1997.

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• One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.

  Rebecca West

  Running, Husband, Home

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Giving, Turns

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.92, Stanford University Press

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