Withdrawal Quotes

• It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Hate, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.225, Bibliolis Books

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• Life is a bank account, there are no withdrawals without first putting something in.

  Ray Torres

  Firsts, Life Is, Bank Accounts

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• Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

  Andre Gide

  Happiness, Loyalty, Past

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• A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Morning, Truth

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.423, Modern Library

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• Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding

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• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hate, Love Is, Hatred

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.225, Bibliolis Books

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• Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Strength, Sympathy

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• Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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• The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Deposits, Overfishing

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• Karma's not like a bank . Make a deposit, take a withdrawal.

  Adam Wilde

  Karma, Deposits

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• We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Country, Peace, Fire

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• In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children, and in its replacement of family rituals and special events, television has played an important role in the disintegration of the American family.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Special, Important

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• Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?

  Jean-Luc Nancy

  Eye, Inward, Ears

  Jean-Luc Nancy (2009). “Listening”, p.10, Fordham University Press

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• Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

  Dan Barber

  Vegetables, Soil, Bank Accounts

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Teaching, Luxury, Yield

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Men, Needs

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• I've come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn't last that long, but then it's just all psychological. I think it's worse than cigarettes.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Long, Bed

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I applaud President Obamas decision to begin a partial withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. However, I believe that we must go further and have a full withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops.

  Susan Bysiewicz

  Believe, Decision, President

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• you don't get to make withdrawals from the time bank. Only deposits.

  Linda L. Richards

  Time, Deposits

  Linda L. Richards (2005). “The Next Ex”, Mira Books

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• If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

  Chris Prentiss

  Substance, Psychological, Behavior

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.25, BookBaby

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• The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.

  Chinweizu Ibekwe

  Ignorance, Mean, Exercise

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• We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Pain, Suffering, Pounds

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Luxury

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power.

  Lewis Mumford

  Play, Long, People

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