Running Away Quotes - Page 28

• A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Horse, Passion

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• Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

  Edward Hoagland

  Running, Hurt, Animal

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• I'd like to run away
  From you,
  But if you didn't come
  And find me ...
  I would die.

  Shirley Bassey

  Love, Running, Girlfriend

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• No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Running, Spiritual, Trying

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• Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Eye, Acceptance

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Horse, Want

  C. S. Lewis (2005). “The wisdom of Narnia”

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• Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

  Tracey Emin

  Running, Art, Lovers

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• Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.

  Wayne Muller

  Running, Pain, Believe

  Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.

  Gerald May

  Running, Dream, Years

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• Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

  C. L. R. James

  Running, Art, Cat

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• Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Inspirational, Running, Native American

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• Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experience that is enslaving you with its torment, there is the willingness to be free.” Are you willing? Or do you just want towait until the world  finally gets it and does it your way?

  Gangaji

  Running, Hurt, Doe

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• IN THE ART OF PEACE we never attack. An attack is proof that one is out of control. Never run away from any challenge, but do not try to suppress or control an opponent unnaturally.. Let attackers come any way they like, and then blend with them. Never chase after opponents. Redirect each attack and get firmly behind it.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Running, Art, Challenges

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.147, Shambhala Publications

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• When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.

  Steven Pressfield

  Running, Destiny, Self

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• Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Cheating, Loneliness

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• Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Needs, Helping

  Pema Chodron (2006). “Practicing Peace in Times of War”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

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• Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...

  John Lennon

  Letting Go, Running, Song

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• For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e-mails. Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day. Really commit to it. Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you've been avoiding. Do it and see what you discover.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Sleep, Commitment

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• He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

  Socrates

  Life, Change, Strength

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• I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent.

  Tupac Shakur

  Running, Responsibility, Rapper

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• Adventure must start with running away from home.

  William Bolitho

  Running, Home, Adventure

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• I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

  Peter Heller

  Running, Two, People

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.257, Vintage

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• The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Running, Rocks

  "Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.

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• I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.

  Sherman Hemsley

  Running, Laughter, School

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• The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Running, Strong, Heart

  "Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola" by Ignatius of Loyola, (No. 325), 1548.

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