Shedding Quotes - page 3

You must never lose your sense of shame. If one is past all shame what is one fit for? One lives like a bird in moult, shedding good qualities like plumes all pointing down to Hell. (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
We're always dying to things. We're always shedding everything in order to be fully alive and resurrected at every moment. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road. View quote
Lee Child
And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud. View quote
Ferdowsi
Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things. View quote
Andrew Sullivan
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it. View quote
Victor Hugo
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. View quote
Lord Byron
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities." (Martin Gardner)
My skepticism concerning all notions of reconquista is skepticism toward the view that history is restorative. I get older but I do not grow wiser. It is only by shedding skin, by turning pages, by ordering stronger spectacles, by having my hair cut, that I seem to be restoring myself to a circular pattern, that I seem to progress toward youth and capability, though my progress is actually a decline. View quote
Richard Rodriguez
Every seed goes through the tremendous struggle of losing itself – losing its safety and integrity and becoming vulnerable to every outside force that's around. But without that vulnerability, without the breaking, without the shedding of the shell, life won't sprout. View quote
Jaggi Vasudev
Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions. View quote
John Cassian
"To which god must I sacrifice in order to heal?" To which of the warring serpents should I turn with the problem that now faces me? It is easy, and tempting, to choose the god of Science. Now I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is its symbol. It is a powerful god indeed but it is what the students of ancient gods called a shape-shifter, and sometimes a trickster. View quote
Robertson Davies
The study of history offers no manual of instructions that can be applied automatically; history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations. View quote
Henry Kissinger