The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.
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It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.
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The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.
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The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision--whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.
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For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
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Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
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You cannot run away from awareness; you must some time fight it out or perish. And if you be so, why not now and where you stand?
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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One of the things that we stress is never talk to a stranger. We tell them, 'Run away and tell your teacher, tell your mother, somebody you can trust. Always trust a policeman.
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I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to eat anything that might run away from you.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
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No problem is so big and complicated that it can't be run away from.
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It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
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That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
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You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand
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