Left Behind Quotes - Page 4

• Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

  Stephen Levine

  Grief, Loss, Rope

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.9, Rodale

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• Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Doors, Yesterday, Mind

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• Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Humanity, Age

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• But I understand now what Tori said about her tattoo representing a fear she overcame-a reminder of where she was, as well as a reminder of who she is now. Maybe there is a way to honor my old life as I embrace my new one. "yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

  Veronica Roth

  Tattoo, Heart, Bird

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

  Jay Chiat

  Fashion, Real, Technology

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 01, 1994.

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• If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Unfinished Business, Way, Quitting

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one is left behind. This report breaks new ground and gives workers and businesses the confidence that there can be an economic plan which creates jobs and sets our planet on the course for survival.

  Sharan Burrow

  Jobs, Zero, Fighting

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• Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Book, Done, Smashing

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• I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Feel Better, Feels, Behinds

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.279, Penguin UK

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• No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Origin Of Life, Ideas, People

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• "We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like a deer he sprang away. Through the trees he sped. On and on he led them, tireless and swift, now that his mind was at last made up. The woods about the lake they left behind. Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sunset, Dark, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.293, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

  Tatjana Soli

  Home, Pieces, World

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• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Art, Wall, Regret

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• That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dirty, Past, Secret

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• Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

  Paul de Man

  Fashion, Fire, Flames

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.147, Routledge

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• There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen from which the previous ones are mere abstractions. Just like on sunrise you see things as they are, so on self-realization you see everything as it is. The world of illusions is left behind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Sunrise, Dimensions

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• Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Believe, Less Is More, Behinds

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• There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Biblical, Law

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Grandmother, Perspective, Google

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• In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

  George Weah

  Book, America, Ideas

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

  Cy Coleman

  Piano, Apartment, Behinds

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• Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

  David Zinczenko

  Media, Vcr, Synergy

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• That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Worst Moments, Desire, Wish

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• The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

  Billy Graham

  Bible, Jesus, Wrath

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• We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal

  V. S. Naipaul

  Father, Thinking, People

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.240, Vintage

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