Abandon Quotes

• Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Favors, May, Given

  "Persian Letters". Book by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 76, 1721.

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• Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Letting Go, Ditching

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 25, 2013

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• The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.

  Umberto Eco

  Waiting, Asking, Elements

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

  Thomas More

  Wind, Storm, Ships

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.111, Executive Intelligence Review

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• For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Forever, Path, You Choose

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• In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

  Charles Stanley

  Children, Giving Up, Perfect

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• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Destiny, Self

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Poet

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• Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Encouraging, People

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• It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

  Phillip Mann

  Struggle, Destroyed

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• Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

  Frida Kahlo

  Laughter, Light, Laughing

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  Ira Glass

  Funny, Humorous, Enough

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• The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Essence, Ideas, Religion

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  The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, America, Liberty

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Solitude, Trying, Cost

  "The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  People, Waiting, Purpose

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

  Nhat Hanh

  Views, Needs, Ready

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

  Elif Safak

  Rabbit Holes, Encounters, Rabbits

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• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Artist, Creating Art

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• Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Karma, Buddhist

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.244, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Art, Reality

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• All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

  Dante Alighieri

  Pedestal, Divine Comedy, Inferno

  Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (2010). “The Divine Comedy”, p.210, Bibliolis Books

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• If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

  Michael Enzi

  Family, Ifs

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• Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon.
  Laugh.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Yoga Practice, Play, No Regrets

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.2, Conari Press

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