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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. – Jean-Paul Sartre	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity. – Anthon St Maarten	added by anonymous 10 years ago
God never abandoned you. He just pushes for you to discover Him. – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned. – U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles. – Charles Sumner	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. – Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Art is never finished, only abandoned. – Leonardo DaVinci, (maybe)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.' – Athenus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. – Wystan Hugh Auden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles. – Charles Sumner	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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