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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• A winner never stops trying.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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

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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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• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Love, Romantic, Kissing

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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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• 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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• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!

  Abhinavagupta

  Life, Faith, Spiritual

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• Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.

  Bankei Yotaku

  Hate, Thinking, Illumination

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• Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

  Omar Suleiman

  Marriage, Respect, Religious

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Nov 18, 2013

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• Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother

  Twitter post from May 10, 2015

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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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  You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

  Will Rogers

  War, Lasts, Schemes

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Time, Would Be

  Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”

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• A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Rushing, Mad

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

  Ed Pastor

  Range, Bombing

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• Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

  Julian Assange

  Censorship, Form, Leaks

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

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• The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reality, Blood, Jet

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