Abandonment Quotes - Page 6

• Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

  Dalai Lama

  Laughing, Very Good

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• So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

  Anna Godbersen

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Broken

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• There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Writing, Kind, Drowning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Views, Criticism

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2011). “The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change”, p.273, University of Chicago Press

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• The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Views, Historic, Putin

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Self, Example

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• One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence that our world was created by divine intention, that a god intercedes in human affairs, or that there is life after death. Religion is a hangover from humankind's timorous infancy; it's time for us to walk upright and unafraid, and to take charge of our own lives.

  Simon LeVay

  Religious, Hangover, Thinking

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• There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

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• All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Mother, Religious, Children

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• You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

  Eric Idle

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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• A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.

  Jo Coudert

  Sex, Loneliness, Roots

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• No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

  Hermann Adler

  Israel, Humanity, Charity

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 849, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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• In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taught Us, World, Lessons

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

  Bette Davis

  Art, Emotional, Discipline

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Self, Development, Want

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• A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

  Immanuel Kant

  Lying, Men, Dignity

  Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.267

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• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Hero, Eye, Feet

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there are so many ruptures and disturbances in childhood that imprint themselves on us. Attachment begets trauma, in that broader sense, and so if we've ever been dependent on anyone, I think there is an Imago blueprint in us somewhere.

  Melissa Febos

  Thinking, Attachment, Childhood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.

  Mary Pipher

  Children, Moving, Divorce

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• To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Letting Go, Mean, Self

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• "Plaza de la Soledad" is a documentary about Carmen, Lety, Raquel and Esther, four strong women - middle-aged and older - who want to break a vicious circle that began with abuse and abandonment suffered from an early age. They simply want to have a better life. The film follows their quest to find true love and their capacity to transform themselves.

  Maya Goded

  Strong Women, Circles, Abuse

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Philosophy, Passion, Men

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

  Anthony Burgess

  Responsibility, Guilt, Way

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• The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.

  Leslie Ludy

  True Beauty, Sparkle, Found

  Leslie Ludy (2008). “Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman”, p.19, Harvest House Publishers

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• It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war, and the substitution of a public opinion equipped with all the facts and taken into the confidence of the ruling classes, that peace can be assured to the world.

  Frederic C. Howe

  War, Taken, Decide Upon

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