Stopping Quotes

• ‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

  Thomas Merton

  Jobs, Worthy, Not Worthy

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Disputed Questions”, p.143, Macmillan

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• Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Thomas Merton (1976). “The Power and Meaning of Love”

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• Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Way, Ethics

  "Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Time, Learning

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 04, 2012

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• Stop worrying and start living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Encouraging, Worry

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, Simon and Schuster

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• Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Work, Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• When you stop hoping you start settling.

  Valorie Burton

  Inspirational, Hope, Settling

  FaceBook post by Valorie Burton from Feb 25, 2015

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• It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

  Marcus Miller

  Inspirational, Music, African American

  Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.

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• If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Aug 12, 2012

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• Whose woods these are I think I know.
  His house is in the village though;
  He will not see me stopping here
  To watch his woods fill up with snow.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Snow, House

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 1 (1923)

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• When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 17, 2013

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• All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

  Brian Weiss

  Love, Patience, Time

  FaceBook post by Dr. Brian Weiss from Aug 15, 2016

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• The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Inspirational, Freedom, Differences

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• I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

  Oliver Reed

  Drinking, Thinking, Doctors

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• Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.

  Melody Beattie

  Life, Relationship, Letting Go

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• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Smart, Responsibility, People

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• I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Movie, Track, Acting

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• The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

  Ajahn Amaro

  Buddhist, Cutting, Thinking

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• Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.

  David Bellamy

  Nature, Money, Trying

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• Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

  Eileen Collins

  Country, Patriotic, People

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• People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

  Nora Roberts

  Relationship, Work, People

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Vision In White”, p.203, Penguin

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• And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

  Tupac Shakur

  War, Drinking, Thinking

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