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Quotes About Abandonment

We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.
~ Brother Lawrence
physicists abandoned their belief in a Newtonian, material universe because they had come to realize that the universe is not made of matter suspended in empty space but energy.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Magic works differently for different people, and there is no way of knowing how it will respond. Even those who have used it repeatedly and come to rely on it have found that it can abandon them.
~ Terry Brooks
Ac?m t?pk? organlar?m? kemiren bir yarat?k gibi hala canl?.Ölmeyecek.Ölmeyi reddediyor.Onu oraya sen koydun, sen ektin, embriyoya onca y?l?n besinini verdin.Ve sonra yürüyüp gittin. Bana iyilik yapt???n? söyledin.Åžimdi ayr?lmak daha iyi, eÄŸer bu iÅŸ uzarsa sadece daha fazla ac? verecek, dedin. Ac? çekmenin ne olduÄŸunu bilmiyorsun…
~ Tess Gerritsen
They are some of the most powerful narratives human beings have produced, about what we most want (beauty, home, bread) and fear (darkness, abandonment, being devoured), which is why they keep being retold and reconfigured.
~ Theodora Goss
Fans jump on your bandwagon and desert you when you hit the harder times.
~ Roy Hodgson
Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.
~ Karen Chance
I turn my back on him as he goes, and settle myself in the parlor, and touch Ma's piano. My fingers leave sighs in the dust.
~ Karen Hesse
Denim and doubt, cotton and caution, fell to the floor in a forgotten heap
~ Karen Keast
We're all going to die. Alone and miserably. With lots of pain. That's the way life goes. People make promises and don't keep them. They say they care about you and forget you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I lived with the constant awareness that if I cared about you and you figured it out, you'd leave.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I just wished she'd stop forgetting me. Like she didn't want to remember me. Or maybe she wished she'd never had me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Mac- "I'm afraid you'll leave me behind since you can't see me." Ryodan- "I'd leave you behind if I could see you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Abruptly excusing himself
~ Karen Miller
wood rot on the mantelpiece in the
~ Karen White
The 140 children at the Cuando mission represent a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Angolan kids who have no one to look after them. Most wander aimlessly around the countryside or live by their wits on the streets of Luanda and other major cities, begging for money, washing or even just watching cars. In what should be one of Africa's richest countries, guarding vehicles has become a major form of employment.
~ Karl Maier
I know that traditionally, monsters hang around empty places for no apparent reason—and
~ Karl Schroeder
knew that this was the world I was in now, a vile dirty place where I was alone, alone, alone.
~ Kate Grenville
The creature that was me had crept away and left nothing more than the shell of a woman curled up on the bunk.
~ Kate Grenville
Kate McMullan
~ Philoctetes
By the eighth and ninth centuries, mistrusted by the Christians and neglected by the Germanic conquerors, the baths in the West had fallen into disrepair and were finally abandoned. Extraordinary achievements in engineering, architecture, public health and city planning that stretched from Italy to Britain to North Africa, they mostly lay in ruins for centuries.
~ Katherine Ashenburg
Everyone left and we have remained on a path that goes on without us.
~ Gabriela Mistral
If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Maya knows that her mother left her in Island Books. But maybe that's what happens to all children at a certain age. Some children are left in shoe stores. And some children are left in toy stores. And some children are left in sandwich shops. And your whole life is determined by what store you get left in. She does not want to live in the sandwich shop.
~ Gabrielle Zevin