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Retreating from the world -- Guo Jun
We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely. -- Charles R. Swindoll
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. -- Douglas MacArthur
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often. -- Brian Wilson
I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency. -- Conor Oberst
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. -- Norman Mailer
And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take. -- Dolley Madison
We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. -- Philip Kearny
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. -- T. S. Eliot
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images. -- John Updike
In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist. -- Kina Grannis
The progress of the Way seems retreating. -- Laozi
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant -- Derek Landy
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction. -- Oliver P. Smith
I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation. -- Lucas Hedges
I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself. -- Banana Yoshimoto
A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself! -- Charles M. Schulz
Pretty stupid," I called after his retreating form. "To give up before all possible solutions have been tried. -- Maria V. Snyder
Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own. -- Nenia Campbell
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating. -- Mark Twain
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else. -- Franz Kafka
Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon. -- E. M. Forster
If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives. -- Henri Nouwen
The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast. -- Henry Van Dyke
Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, "I must be growing," and continue moving forward. -- T. Harv Eker
Meditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be. -- Gangaji
Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled. -- Wilfred Owen
I swoon into a standing eight count. Goddamn, I actually feel my consciousness want to detach and hide like a turtle retreating into a hopelessly soft shell that won't save anyone. -- Paul Tremblay
Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness. -- Judith Viorst
Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed. -- Sarah Dessen

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