Abandon Quotes
Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.
We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.
This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.
It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering, but You, O Lord, are faithful.
In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.
It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.
Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
I spend money with reckless abandon. Last month I blew $5000 at a reincarnation. I got to thinking, what the hell, you only live once!
When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.
I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.
A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.
A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.
This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.
You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.