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“I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.”
― Prodigy
― Prodigy
“For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated...We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is a constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom (p228)....I see conflict and I run away or prepare for battle. (p246)”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.”
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
“Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we鈥檙e running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we鈥檙e running from are the very things we should be running to.”
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“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.”
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“Life is full of running. The key to a life lived or an existence tolerated is held in the single decision as to the direction in which we will run.”
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“One of the greatest tricks in concealing our cowardice is to run 鈥榝rom鈥� something in a manner that makes it appear as if we are actually running 鈥榯o鈥� something. But the real trick is in remembering which one we鈥檙e actually doing.”
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“When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?”
― Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
― Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
“It is foolishness to think that you can leave a place your heart never left.”
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Some things will always and forever defy the denial that we take up to slay them.”
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Sometimes we find that responsibly discerning something from a distance is nothing more than cowardice creating an excuse to keep our distance from that which we fear. And when that鈥檚 the case, life will shut down our discernment so that we are left with no option but to engage what we would otherwise run from.”
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“If I took the energy that I expend in running from my problems and used that energy to face those problems, I probably wouldn鈥檛 have a problem and I wouldn鈥檛 be out of breath either.”
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“Too often passion is actually flight in disguise and therefore nothing of passion at all.”
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Diversions and detours of our grandest designs only serve to bolster our need to be in the places that we鈥檙e vigorously trying to walk away from.”
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“The greatest fatigue that we experience is not incurred in fighting the battle. Rather, the greatest fatigue occurs when we run from the battle, for cowardice in retreat is always more exhausting than bravery forging ahead.”
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“Running from what we fear is like throwing a bunch of stuff in the bed of a truck and somehow thinking that driving the truck will distance us from what鈥檚 laying in the bed.”
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“Flee while there is still time and then stop to catch your last breath.”
― The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed
― The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed
“You can deny the battle, but it鈥檚 much harder to deny the death that you鈥檒l experience in having denied the battle within which you died.”
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“I can feel lost. I can work absurdly hard to stay lost. And I can tediously construct my life so as to never be found. And as a result of all these rigorous efforts I can certainly lose a sense of God, but I can never lose God.”
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“It would behoove me to realize that I can鈥檛 build a stronghold of any kind. Rather, I can only find one. And unless the stronghold that I find is God, everything that I fear will have a 鈥榮trong hold鈥� on me.”
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“When heavily tempted to sexual immorality; think not of what you will gain instantly but lose in the long run, running away from the scene is always the best solution.”
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“If truth were to be told, how often is being 鈥榣ost鈥� a result of the decision I have made to never be 鈥榝ound鈥�?”
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“The essential ingredients for the best self that you can create is found in the self that you鈥檙e running from.”
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“To walk in the woods is not to run from life. Rather, it鈥檚 to observe how life should be done in order to build a culture that won鈥檛 require any running.”
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“If you鈥檙e fleeing something, there鈥檚 a good chance that the road you鈥檙e running down is circular.”
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