Abandon Quotes - Page 6

• Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

  Michelangelo

  Christianity

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• You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mother, Children, Giving Up

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• The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

  Peter Abelard

  Passion, Men, Scripture

  Orlando Williams Wight, Peter Abelard, Héloïse, Alphonse de Lamartine (1861). “Lives and Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.209

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• I see that you are not sure of what you should do. You must remain steadfast, Monsieur. It would be a great wrong for you to leave and an irreparable scandal to the town and the Company. If you were to abandon the house, I do not think people would ever be willing to welcome us back. Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Thinking, People

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

  Confucius

  Mistake, Educational, Failure

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

  Claude Debussy

  People, Oblivion

  "The Cambridge Companion to Debussy". Book by Simon Trezise, 2003.

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• These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

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• I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that doesn't feel like it will turn into a keeper.

  Robin Pecknold

  Writing, Thinking, Labor

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• It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Abandoned

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• The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

  Quintilian

  Soul, Obscurity, Rust

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• You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

  Francis of Assisi

  Attitude, Giving, Possession

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• Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

  Will Durant

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Feeling Alone, Feelings, First Impression

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• We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Society, Substance, Body

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, Doe

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• No, I won't abandon hate. If I did, then nothing would be left of me.

  Yana Toboso

  Hate, Would Be, Left

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• I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

  Francois Rabelais

  Confidence, Hope, Religion

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• People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of mutual aid, because the astonishing thing about disasters is that people are often weirdly joyous in them, because they've recovered a sense of agency, a sense of power, etc.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Agency, People, Etc

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Makeup, Vulnerable

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.18, Penguin

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• I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Artist, Who I Am, People

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• I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

  Barbara Deming

  Thinking, Choices, Enemy

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Long

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• It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Running, Inspiration

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• Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this remembrance. Be careful lest your tongue pronounce it while other-than-He is in your heart. Let your heart be the one who utters, and your ear the one who is attentive to this invocation until the 'speaker' emanates from your Self (sirr). When you feel the emergence of the Speaker within you through the invocation, do not abandon the spiritual condition wherein you find yourself.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Heart, Names

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