Worn Out Quotes

• Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

  John Bingham

  Running, Strong, Believe

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Important, Capacity

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• To be worn out is to be renewed.

  Laozi

  Worn

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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• So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.

  Aldous Huxley

  Letting Go, Lying, Fall

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• Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

  Iris Murdoch

  Italian, Shoes, Boots

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• This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

  James Dobson

  Sex, Stress, Kids

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• When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Dresses, Worn

  "Human, All Too Human".

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• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.

  John Muir

  Nature, Lying, Learning

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.296, Library of America

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• Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Wonder Woman, Saying Yes, Worn

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2016

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• ... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

  Belva Plain

  Sorrow, Coats, Worn

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• In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Play, Skills, Soul

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?

  Rob Brezsny

  Blessing, Giving, Life Is

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Reality, Blow

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

  Roger Miller

  Work, Shoes, Car

  Song: King of The Road

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• Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

  Alvin Langdon Coburn

  Art, Expression, Cameras

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• Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Europe, Worn

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• I now let go of worn out things, worn out conditions, and worn out relationships. Divine order is now established and maintained in me and in my world.

  Catherine Ponder

  Letting Go, Divine Order, World

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• Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
  But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
  Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
  Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
  Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
  Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
  The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

  John Dryden

  Life, Fate, Autumn

  "Oedipus: A Tragedy".

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• We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

  Robert Bly

  Life, School, Men

  Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shoes, Hiking, Numbers

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• It is time for us to breathe and build margin into our lives for God. Sabbath was intended as a gift, and it is still a gift to us today. If you are weary, worn out, and exhausted the concept of Sabbath will change your life.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Today, Exhausted, Changing Your Life

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