#leaving

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. ↗

— Erica Jong

#actually #bad #enough #friends #getting

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#burn #completely #good #leaving #like

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#came #certain #certain things #fact #germany

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#available #communications #everything #fast #feel

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#been #choice #doing #ever #festivals

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#developer #leaving #long #people #professional

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#come #else #happens #heart #instinct

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. ↗

— Robert Shea

#degree #department #every #extraordinary #happens

There's something wrong inside of me," she said. "I don't know at it is. It feels big and heavy and sometimes it makes it hard to breathe." She lifted her hands eyes. "And tears keep leaking out of my eyes. Is this what sadness feels like?" "That's what it feels like for me." I replied. "It's funny. I've heard about it in a lot of the stories I've collected, but I never knew it felt like this before." She sighed "it's so heavy......" "I know." I replied "I know. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#sadness-feeling-ache #funny

I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that? ↗

— Rachel Ward

#leaving #love #love