Undone Quotes - Page 12

• Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Punishment, Heartless, Has Beens

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.276, Penguin

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• Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

  George W. Bush

  Learning, Presidential, Important

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• Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Doe, Good Times

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• Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.

  Judith Butler

  Grief, Missing, Desire

  Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

  Saul Williams

  Air, Wings, Shoes

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

  Brennan Manning

  Greatness, Soul, Growth

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.87, NavPress

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• The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Mistake, Eye, Way To Live

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• Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Tree, Dawn, Done

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.12, University of Illinois Press

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• When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

  John Adams

  People, Legislature

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• Time is not measured by the years that you live But by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give- And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone That would brighten the life or lighten the load Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road- So what does it matter how long we may live If as long as we live we unselfishly give.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Years, Long, Giving

  Helen Steiner Rice (1988). “Sunshine of Joy”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• And while I'm sure you feel that your particular mistake is extraordinarily big, insurmountable even, contrary to what you might think, these types of things can always be undone, and oftentimes aren't nearily as lethal as we think—or, should I say, as we allow them to be.

  Alyson Noel

  Mistake, Thinking, Might

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• Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

  Clive Barker

  Powerful, Evil, Appetite

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Feb 08, 2013

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• This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Patience, Blow, Tangled

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• and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sorry, Games, Play

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• I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone...but something at least I was privileged to leave for the world to use, if it so intends...As the Latin poet said I will leave the table of the living like a guest who has eaten his fill. Yes, if I had another life to spend, I certainly would not waste it. But that cannot be, so why complain?

  Leon Croizat

  Art, Latin, Science

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• They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

  Rudyard Kipling

  Nature, Rain, Years

  'Rewards and Fairies' (1910) 'The Way through the Woods'

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• There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wrath, Divine Justice

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.204

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• You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

  Wallace Stegner

  Notebook, Morning, Lying

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.191, Modern Library

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• Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of
  worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection
  to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and
  how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking,
  Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t
  change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Morning, Mean

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Evil, Style

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.44, Penguin Books India

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• If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

  Edith Stein

  God, Night, Hands

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• A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

  Pema Chodron

  Fear, Struggle, Threatening Us

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Doe, World

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• There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.

  Richard Sibbes

  Minutes, Our Lives

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.3856, Titus Books

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