Cease Quotes

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease to be never. Changeless the spirit remains, Birthless and deathless forever.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

If the refugees return to Israel - Israel will cease to exist.

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

The treacheries of ambition never cease.

I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

The only fight you cannot win is the one you are not willing to fight. And the only dream that you cannot make come true is the one you cease to dream.

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.