To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice.
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.
Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
