Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us
There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness.
Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from
Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.
Anything that improves people's expectations of a meal is good for the world. Anything that weans even one kid or one adult away from Chili's or T. G. I. Friday's is definitely a win for the good guys.
A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.
i made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed.
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of the written word. But for me the urge toward poetry, that seductive feeling of being swept away by words, was enough for me to overcome that fear that my experiences weren't worthy of poetry itself.
The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.
I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own busyness. I want to turn all this over to You slowly, carefully, examining every fragment as I pass it off, so there'll never be any question about it again. Every time I've dumped and run, I've nearly always run back and snatched it out of Your hands. Help me in this. . . . . . . Right now, I'm certain of only one thing - that You love us, and that's where we all have to begin.
I can be very messy and disorganized. And I don't throw away anything.
I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.
