#leavin

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#denying #exit #go #graceful #job

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home? ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#anything #chinese #did #foreign #free

The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#back #been #condemned #decision #departure

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#beautiful #because #dream #elegant #good

Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do. ↗

— Luther Allison

#everything #family #had #i #learnin

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#changes #leaving #less #melancholy #more

It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me. ↗

— Alice Barrett

#coming #even #gone #how #i

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#give #home #involves #kind #leaving

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #children #colleagues #debt #doing

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos. ↗

— Kit Bond

#accomplished #back #chaos #early #fellow