#abandon

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#else #everything #find #happen #place

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#about #arrive #blame #blamed #broken

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#after #am #anyone #away #been

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#art #because #being #comics #fine

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#also #attachments #children #everything #father

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#conditions #conflict #contrary #define #did

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives. ↗

— Brandon Andress

#abandoned #christian #christianity #collapse #economies

We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment. ↗

— Rock Peter

#my-abandonment #peter #rock #wisdom #experience

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#forgotten #hollow #loneliness #love

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#boots #cabot #john #meg #pierce