Leaving It Behind Quotes:

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

- Jean Paul

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Laughter, Leaving Him, Leaving It Behind

Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.

- Sue Monk Kidd

topic: Running, Grief, Talking, Leaving It Behind

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

- Sarah Addison Allen

source: Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Loss, Leaving It Behind

I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.

- Helene Hanff

topic: Book, Leaving, Sprinkles, Leaving It Behind, Book Lover

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

- Henry Cloud

source: Henry Cloud (2011). “Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward”, p.7, Harper Collins

topic: Moving, People, Leaving, Leaving It Behind, Talents And Abilities

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

- Carol P. Christ

topic: Leaving, Movement, Growing, Leaving It Behind

I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.

- Shailene Woodley

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Heart, Character, Tv Shows, Leaving It Behind

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)

- Martha Rosler

source: Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.179, MIT Press

topic: Leaving, Littles, Faces, Leaving It Behind