#leaving

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. ↗

— Kenko Yoshida

#bonds #certain #him #i #know

My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#simone-elkeles #dreams

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#relationships #separation #life

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#away #home #leaving #leaving home #only

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#besides #consists #done #elimination #getting

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter) ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#family #family-roots #leaving-home #age

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#better-go #just #leaving #words #beauty

There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#leave #leaving #time #change

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it. ↗

— Ally Carter

#leaving #change

In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist. ↗

— Ari Berk

#houses #leaving #death