#leaving

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#done #ever #hardest #i #leaving

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#career #casualties #content #endeavors #even

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

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#been #cave #else #enough #everything

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#cheer #each #help #leaving #most

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#american #divided #europe #into #leaving

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#leaving-home #sad

Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies … the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#love #pain #death

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them. ↗

— Andre Benjamin

#bitterly #done #had #i #just

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#comes #dance #getting #just #leaving