If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“It's the worst kind of abandonment, when someone lets you be an asshole. People should never stop talking unless something horrible happens.… — Beth Williams Copy Share Image
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now. For if a man should have been content It was… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“The fear of abandonment forced me to comply as a child, but I’m not forced to comply anymore. The key people in… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines… — Jeff Brown Copy Share Image
And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the… — William James Mayo Copy Share Image
It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can,… — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine -… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“And just what would I gain if I go back to that place? I'll stop at a tree when I like it… — Sorachi Hideaki Copy Share Image
I have a couple of what I call "buttons" - fears or anxieties that when tweaked can cause me to be vulnerable.… — Nikki DeLoach Copy Share Image
God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
“Some are quietly deteriorating the person’s self-esteem through the emotional game of abandonment. Being present physically but checked out emotionally is not… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Everyone deals with sadness and lack of love when they're kids, and all this abandonment. Most people do. Hopefully you want to… — Robyn Copy Share Image
“You don’t know what it means to be betrayed! Should I explain it to you? It means to be treated like trash… — Yuuki Obata Copy Share Image
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I see the concepts spatially in my mind. I see the boxes and corrals and grids into which administrative systems require people,… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“I’ve read that, for some borderlines, the flip side of abandonment fear is the fear of engulfment. It’s another one of those… — Kiera Van Gelder Copy Share Image
All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image