Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
“Lonely Balcony The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache… — iqra iqbal Copy Share Image
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union… — Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft Copy Share Image
Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough,… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 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
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“abandonment of spiritual values which makes us stand aghast.’ The Mir answered: ‘Neither could you provide entertainment for your people, nor could… — Idries Shah 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
[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
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
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
“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
“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
“They may lack confidence in their ability to leave a romantic relationship when and if necessary. Fear of abandonment eclipses all other… — Stan Tatkin Copy Share Image
“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
I think that, very often there's a pain that's just too painful to touch. You'll break apart. And I think her mother's… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“So many times during the day, Helen had seen a dark presence take hold of the prince, as though he was haunted… — Aria Cunningham Copy Share Image
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an… — Theodore Roosevelt 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 thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.” quote by Vincent de Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/741/vincent-de-paul-1676_abandonment_i-n-order-to-raise-a-soul-to-the-highest_1457809.png)
