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The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.
Sep 10, 2025
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.
Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.
My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.
The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.
The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.
How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.
Isn't it interesting how men 'leave' their families, but women 'abandon' their children?
Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.
I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.
Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.