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Democritus:The world is a theater, life is a drama: You come, see and leave. Gracian:Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Ibsen:A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Aziz Nesin:I perceive that you will run away..
I can't beg, I can't run
But leave your voice with me
Epicurus:Better to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Luther:Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Paul Verlaine:Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you. Aziz Nesin:
I know you'll break off
I can't hold your hair
But leave your smell with me
Karen Blixen:We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
Aziz Nesin:I understand that you'll leave
I am already ruined, I can't collapse
But leave your color with me
Amílcar Cabral:“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.” Stefan Zweig:Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.
Wanda Landowska:The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure. Akhmatova:Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of myself in my songs,
That I appeared to you in waking dreams. Renoir:“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.” Dorothy Parker:Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. Juan Jimenez:The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!
Pericles:What you leave behind is not what is engraved in α stone monument, but what is woven into the lives of others. Virginia Satir:I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.
Valery Paul:A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Nelson Mandela:As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.” Franz Kafka:Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Graham Bell:Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen before.” Proudhon:I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Thomas Aquinas:Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Hawthorne:Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Luther:Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. John Steinbeck:It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. Heinrich Heine:When words leave off, music begins.
Hemingway:The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Khalil Gibran:If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Chanel:There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.’
William James:Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
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