#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

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 the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#leaving #new #old #once #stand

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#anyone #college #comfortable #daunting #environment

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#hard #i #leaving #manchester #manchester united

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there. ↗

— John Dingell

#charge #course #leaving #made #mistake

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#cook #days #effects #heard #i

I don't want to see anyone leaving single tonight. I want everyone to leave impregnated. ↗

— Joel Madden

#everyone #i #leave #leaving #see

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#good #hate #i #leaving #london