Chasing Quotes - Page 18

• I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Trying

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• Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Missing, Risk

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.125, Penguin

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• Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Baseball, Kids, Chasing Rainbows

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• The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Running, Light, Darkness

  Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.33, Zondervan

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• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

  Milarepa

  Running, Dog, Sticks

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• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

  Milarepa

  Running, Dog, Lions

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• The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Horse, Hands, Breathing

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.12, Rodale

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• I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Years, Goal, Honor

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• Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Realizing, Away From You

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• The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

  Miguel Syjuco

  Tyrants, Humanity, Tails

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs.

  John Robert Colombo

  Dog, Tree, Dry

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• You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to train a horse, it's to try to get the horse with you where it's one mind and one body. You may spend your whole life chasing that, but it's a good thing to chase.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Mind, Trying

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• Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Inspirational, Basketball, Believe

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• Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness.

  Sean Stephenson

  Happiness, Ownership, Sean

  Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.141, John Wiley and Sons

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• Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Dream, Chase Your Dreams, Dreams Do Come True

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• Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!” A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley. “Oh honestly,” said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. “Well, on your own head be it!” The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Long, Laughing

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• These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Mean, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 26, 2013

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• Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

  Gladys Taber

  Cat, Practice, Bird

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• And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

  Dorothy Parker

  Poet

  'Here Lies' (1939) 'The Little Hours'

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• You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Light

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• Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life. And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Home, Heart, Ambition

  "Interview: Danielle LaPorte | The Desire Map". Interview with Kristen Noel, bestselfmedia.com. February 23, 2015.

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• If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams.

  J. B. Bernstein

  Running, Dream, Might

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• This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.

  Kenneth Koch

  Beach, Passion, Hands

  Kenneth Koch (1982). “Days and nights”, Random House (NY)

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• I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.

  Kevin Ollie

  Basketball, Life Lesson, Player

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls - I was chasing girls all the time - and so I thought if I join it, there might be some love scenes. And there was a particular girl and I thought I might get to kiss Amy. I never did get to kiss Amy but I did get to kiss Elizabeth Taylor, so it was all right, a lot later.

  Michael Caine

  Girl, Kissing, Amy

  Source: www.npr.org

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