#leaving

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 found leaving Manchester United very, very hard. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#hard #i #leaving #manchester #manchester united

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#aware #big #fiction #how #leaving

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up. ↗

— Jayne Mansfield

#bring #children #else #everywhere #go

For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#bring #country #entering #entry #few

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#basic #educator #free #however #leaving

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#enjoy #feel #freedom #great #leaving

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ↗

— Jean Paul

#everywhere #finding #gift #go #joy

Leaving South Africa was very difficult. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#difficult #leaving #south #south africa #very

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#arrived #capital #contrive #could #despair