#leaving

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home? ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#anything #chinese #did #foreign #free

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

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#beautiful #because #dream #elegant #good

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

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

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos. ↗

— Kit Bond

#accomplished #back #chaos #early #fellow

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#glam #having #hours #la #leaving

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#clock #day #done #half #his

I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to? ↗

— Margaret Way

#leaving #nature