Leaving Quotes

It’s very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Instead of wiping away your tears, wipe the people who make you cry.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.

Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.