Running Away Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.

  Tara Brach

  Wise, Running, Art

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• The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

  Saul Williams

  Running, Hero, Persons

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• I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

  Chaka Khan

  Running, Taken, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

  Ajahn Chah

  Running, Evil, Mind

  Achaan Chah, Ajahn Chah (2006). “A Taste of Freedom: Selected Dhamma Talks”, p.48, Buddhist Publication Society

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• Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.

  John Lydon

  Running, Reality, Views

  Source: www.axs.com

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• Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

  D. A. Carson

  Running, Boys, Doors

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.37, Baker Academic

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• When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Running, Mistake, Failure

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• I certainly don't feel like I am desperate to run away from a film set. I love the hustle and bustle. Everything is sort of mad right before a take, and then it just settles, and you've got these two minutes of a bit of magic. I just love that in film.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Running, Two, Hustle And Bustle

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Mistake, Moving

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.237, Cambridge University Press

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• Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Running, Regret, Drink

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• I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Tired, Fighting

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.619, Anchor

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• He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day and looks like a pussy today.

  Tank Abbott

  Running, Fighting, Mma

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• I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Running, Hands, Color

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Running, Thinking, Order

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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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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• If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite twin." I'm not that. I enjoy the bounties of this technology. But if you fear that your connected life is running away with you, read the book, reflect, talk to your family and friends. I think we deserve better than some of the places that we've gotten with this technology.

  Sherry Turkle

  Running, Book, Taken

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Today, you talk to kids about books and they almost want to run away because they've got computers, iPads and all that, while we had to actually sit down and crack the books open and go line by line to try to learn all that stuff.

  Maurice Ashley

  Running, Book, Kids

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I like to act. I guess letting what you love be what you do is key. I've worked very hard for that to be the case, probably because I'm very lazy and I only want to do things that are fun and I run away from anything that feels like work... Acting for me is like lunch at school - you're just in a playground where you get to pretend and play.

  Dichen Lachman

  Running, Fun, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is--not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Real, Technology

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• I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got very far, but they were always having to come and fetch me. Once when I was about six, my father came to get me somewhere I'd gone, and he told me later he'd asked me, "Why are you so restless? Why can't you stay here with us?" and I said to him, "I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Children, Father

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• I've always been scared of becoming something. I fear the fact of jailing myself in any circle or group of people or specific work or specific style of music. I guess it is because I don't want to close myself to other possibilities. But it is also because I witnessed people growing and starting to speak only to those who are similar to them. This makes me run away, people who don't experience difference anymore.

  Gaspar Claus

  Running, People, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think right now the focus of people involved in food issues have to be legislative resolution at the county, city, state, and national level. I just don't think we can run away from it anymore.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

  Mark Takano

  Running, Country, Thinking

  "The Challenges of Being a Gay Member of Congress" by Andrew Longhi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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