#leave

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#else #found #gift #i #known

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories. ↗

— Michael Landon

#good #i #leave #memories #need

The best artists know what to leave out. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#best #know #leave #out

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#departing #footprints #great #great men #leave

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#disappointed #foolish #fully #leave #passion

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#generally #hole #leaves #mind #nature

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. ↗

— James Lovelock

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I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#great #i #institution #journalism #leave

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#after #come #every #every time #humor