„When you give up junk, you give up a way of life.“
Junkie (1953)
Kontext: When you give up junk, you give up a way of life. I have seen junkies kick and hit the lush and wind up dead in a few years. Suicide is frequent among ex-junkies. Why does a junky quit junk of his own will? You never know the answer to that question. No conscious tabulation of the disadvantages and horrors of junk gives you the emotional drive to kick. The decision to quit junk is a cellular decision, and once you have decided to quit you cannot go back to junk permanently any more than you could stay away from it before.
William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs war ein amerikanischer Schriftstel… 1914 - 1997Ähnliche Zitate
„Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.“
— Danielle Steel, buch The Gift
Variante: She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.
Quelle: The Gift
„You are ready to give your life for your honour … Be ready to give up your honour for your soul.“
— Josemaría Escrivá Spanish theologian 1902 - 1975
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The Furrow (1986)
— Gottfried de Purucker Author, Theosophist 1874 - 1942
Give up the small life, the petty life, the mean life, the restricted life, the little personal life which shuts you in - give it up and follow the light of the Star within you.
The Masters and the Path of Occultism (1939)
— Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980
Quelle: Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), p. 58
„Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.“
— Sophie Kinsella, buch Mini Shopaholic
Quelle: Mini Shopaholic
„There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.“
— Tom Clancy, buch Against All Enemies
Quelle: Against All Enemies
— Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012
Quelle: Something to Smile about: Encouragement and Inspiration for Life's Ups and Downs
— Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018
Variante: Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
— Franz Kafka author 1883 - 1924
Variant translation: The Policeman said to me, "You want to know the way? Give up! Just give up!" And he turned away like a man that wants to be alone with his laughter.
The Complete Stories (1971)
„Giving up is the only sure way to fail.“
— Gena Showalter American writer 1975
— Oswald Chambers British missionary 1874 - 1917
Quelle: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year
— Victoria Moran American writer 1950
Quelle: The Good Karma Diet (2015), Ch. 2: The Good Karma Diet
