Given Up Quotes - Page 17

• A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is.

  Katsura Hoshino

  Path, Crosses, Form

  "Fictional character: Cross Marian". "D.Gray-man". Manga by Katsura Hoshino, (2004 - ).

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• Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Mean, Heartless, Doe

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• The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Real, Desire

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• What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Nice, Hands

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• If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.

  Macklemore

  Mean, Alcohol, Drug

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• Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Real, Self

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

  Oscar Levant

  Selfish, Book, Reading

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• At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Successful, The End Of The Day, Ends

  "Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going". Book by Fook Kwang Han and Lee Kuan Yew, 2011.

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• It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Book, Creating

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now.

  Ernie Els

  Golf, Given, Banned

  "Leader Immelman comes under fire", www.cnn.com. May 20, 2004.

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• To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Past, Long

  "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, "The New York Times", April 24, 1994.

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• Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

  Sharon Olds

  Lying, Writing, Self

  "Get Over an Ex: Advice for After the Breakup" by Sharon Olds, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• We have to decide whether our fear is going to get the better of us. Once upon a time we had a standard in our country that was 'innocent until proven guilty.' We've given up on so much. Now, people are talking about a standard that is 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.' Think about it. Is that the standard we're willing to live under?

  Rand Paul

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from May 22, 2015

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• Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mean, Ideas, Mind

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.319, Tharpa Publications UK

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• If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dream, People, Doe

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• I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

  Terry Gilliam

  Acceptance, Asking Questions, Given

  "What *Should* We Be Worried About?". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. 2013.

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• The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

  Nathan East

  School, Ideas, People

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  Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.

  Grant Cardone

  Accomplishment, Trying, Chance

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Dec 03, 2016

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• I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Long Ago, Mind

  "Nemesis". Book by Isaac Asimov. Introduction, 1989.

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• Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Struggle, Given

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

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• I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Regret, Successful

  "PM Lee Hsien Loong 'Grieved Beyond Words' at Mr Lee Kuan Yew's Death" by Fiona Chan, www.straitstimes.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Happy, Hurt

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