Retreat Quotes - Page 6

I shall never surrender or retreat.

William B. Travis

Surrender, Never Surrender

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When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life." Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue.

Sakyong Mipham

Father, Meditation, Advice

Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.16, Harmony

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It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

Philip Gibbs

War, Victory, Battle

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I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

Geneen Roth

Two, Healthy, Needs

Geneen Roth (2010). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

Tony Blair

Believe, Years, Iraq

"Brzezinski and Mead on Tony Blair". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2003.

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When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.

Amari Cooper

Learning, Confusion, Design

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Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop
as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are
ridiculed & attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected
grief & suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you
encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. NEVER GIVE
UP! NEVER RETREAT!

Daisaku Ikeda

Giving Up, Lying, Grief

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It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.

Chris Hedges

Country, Self, Fantasy

"How to Think COMMENTS". www.truthdig.com. July 9, 2012.

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I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

Lisa Whelchel

Mom, Party, Parenting

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

Perry Como

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearance… in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, ‘to cease to be among men’) just as action in the sense of ‘to make a beginning’ is a repetition of birth.

Hannah

Men, Thinking, Dying

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The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Atheist, Apathy, Abandon

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Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop

Book, Library, Making Time

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For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper. Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moon nor fire-fly has shown me the cause-way to it. Nature is a personality so vast and universal that we have never seen one of her features.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Moon, Fire

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I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Funny, Long, Dumb

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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Abraham Cowley

Men, Cities, World

Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

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What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

George Edward Woodberry

Stars, Men, Thinking

George Edward Woodberry, “On A Portrait Of Columbus”

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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

George Orwell

Country, Real, Book

George Orwell (1953). “Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays”

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What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Heart, Garden, Majesty

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It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

Loren Eiseley

Nature, Men, Trying

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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

Cyril Connolly

Travel, Past, Years

Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.114, University of Chicago Press

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Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

William O. Douglas

Attitude, Creativity, Men

"Points of Rebellion". Book by William O. Douglas, 1970.

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Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

Sun Tzu

Art Of War, Enemy, Language

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A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

Mao Zedong

Enemy, Doe, Lines

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A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

David A. Cooper

Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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