Standing Quotes - Page 14

• There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sadness, People, Shadow

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2261, Delphi Classics

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• In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving Up, Order, Giving

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• The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

  Robert Fripp

  Musician, Rewards, Privilege

  "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.

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• I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.

  Chris Bonington

  Climbing, Horizon, Looks

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• Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Stars, Thinking, Clouds

  Diane Ackerman, Dave Thurlow, C. Ralph Adler (1999). “Soul of the Sky: Exploring the Human Side of Weather”

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• As soon as I observed myself from outside myself, I recognized and understood that I had a long-standing habit of keeping an eye on myself. That's how I managed to pull myself together, over the years, checking myself from the outside.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Eye, Years, Long

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• Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.

  N.D. Wilson

  Evil, Important, Sometimes

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.172, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Loving yourself means being your own best friend, standing by yourself at all times, including times of failure; being there for yourself no matter what.

  Anita Moorjani

  Mean, Loving Yourself, Matter

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Sep 21, 2014

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• How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mistake, Becoming Better, World

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• Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I'm standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Hurtful, Would Be

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.149, Penguin UK

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• We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way. If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.

  Ajahn Chah

  Lying, Practice, Mind

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• True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  True Power, Path, Walking

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• Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

  James Hetfield

  Funny, Guitar, Feelings

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• Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her.

  Peter Lik

  Photography, Mother, Nature

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• I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

  Patrick Stewart

  Mother, Father, Fighting

  "Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence" by Patrick Stewart, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2009.

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• When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe that there are troops of angels and archangels standing by you, and trembling with respect before the sovereign Master of Heaven and earth. Therefore, when you are in church, be there in silence, fear, and veneration.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Believe, Angel, Men

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• Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

  J. D. Greear

  Temptation, Trying, Satan

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.50, B&H Publishing Group

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• They'll be days like this" my momma said.
  When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises.
  When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape.
  When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment
  And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".

  Sarah Kay

  Disappointment, Rain, Phones

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• We must "Bring Back Our Girls" and support Nigerians working every day to create change. Please donate now to support Nigerian organizations educating and standing up for girls

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Organization, Support

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• There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

  Illeana Douglas

  People, Insecurity, Whispering

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• Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

  Groucho Marx

  Money, War, Firefly

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.

  Ajahn Chah

  Walking Forward, Practice, Path

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• The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Dirty, Kgb

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• Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Names, Jerusalem

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• When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Law, Wish

  Tremendous Trifles "The Twelve Men" (1909)

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