Running Away Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  Carlos Mesa

  Running, Responsibility

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• You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.

  Helen Simonson

  Running, Heart

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• I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

  Sojourner Truth

  Running, Daylight

  Sojourner Truth (2012). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run away from the tears of that, which I think is what makes it feel universal.

  John August

  Running, Dog, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Regret, Anger

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.9, Sounds True

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• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Running, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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• We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Romance, Grownups

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Running, Home, Want

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 16, 2014

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• There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.

  Edna Ferber

  Running, Heart, Two

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.12, Booklassic

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• Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Strength, Being Strong

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• I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

  Goldie Hawn

  Beauty, Confidence, Running

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• The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Running, Inspiration

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• I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Running, Felt

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• You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

  David Foster Wallace

  Running, Games, Broken

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I'm lonely. What kind of loneliness? Every kind. I feel disconnected. Abandoned. As always. Repetition. So what, my love? So what? At first, I just wanted to run away. Now I have no where else to run to, nothing to run from. I don't belong anywhere, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be happy.

  Daul Kim

  Running, Lonely, Loneliness

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• I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Running

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.26, CCEL

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• Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Trying, Answers

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Trying, Hard

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• But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Running, Glasses, Shoes

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• As long as you continue to run away from the world, I will not be able to show you your luminosity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Long

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• I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

  Diego Luna

  Running, Hate, Fighting

  "My sporting life: Diego Luna" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. January 06, 2008.

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• I'm sick of running away from things.

  Natalia Kills

  Running, Sick

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• That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

  Amor Towles

  Running, New York, Problem

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• While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Girl, Running, Home

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