Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.
Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. . . . Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.
(. . . ) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.
