Flee Quotes (84 quotes)

“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.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

tags: escape, flee, running, standing-your-ground

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“Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.”
― Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

tags: anger, fear, fight, flee

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“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)”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

tags: adverse-circumstances, conflict, fight, flee, stress

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“Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: avoid, avoidance, denial, deny, destination, elude, escape, fear, fearful, flee, frightened, goal, hide, intention, intentional, lost, purposeful, run, scared, wandering

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“Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we’re running from are the very things we should be running to.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: direction, fatigued, flee, flight, goals, run, running, tired, weariness, weary, withdraw, withdrawal

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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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: avoid, avoidance, born, calling, destiny, escape, fake, false, fear, flee, grave, mission, play, roles, run, stage, wasted

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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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

tags: disengage, engage, existing, fight, flee, living, run, running

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“One of the greatest tricks in concealing our cowardice is to run ‘from’ something in a manner that makes it appear as if we are actually running ‘to’ something. But the real trick is in remembering which one we’re actually doing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: coward, cowardice, fake, fear, fight, flee, illusion, pretend, trick

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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?”
― Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

tags: flee, home, memory, refugee

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“It is foolishness to think that you can leave a place your heart never left.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

tags: abandon, flee, foolish, foolishness, heart, leave, left, passion, retreat

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“Some things will always and forever defy the denial that we take up to slay them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

tags: blame, denial, destroy, flee, frightened, ignore, justify, rationalize, slay

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“Fleeing is part of the struggle.”
― Manu Larcenet, Ordinary Victories

tags: escape, escaping, flee, fleeing, struggle, struggles-quotes

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“Tomorrow will be a culmination of all my today’s, not an escape from them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: consequences, escape, flee, future, past, pay-it-forward, present, repercussions, today, tomorrow

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“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’s 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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

tags: cowardice, discernment, excuse, fear, flee, run-from, shut-down

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“If I took the energy that I expend in running from my problems and used that energy to face those problems, I probably wouldn’t have a problem and I wouldn’t be out of breath either.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: bold, bravery, energy, fearful, flee, frightened, problems-solutions, run

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“If we’re running, the need to run has likely outweighed ample consideration of where we’re running to. Therefore, the goal is not a cherished destination for which we strive, but a panicked reaction for which we will suffer.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: fear, flee, frightened, goals, reaction, running, suffering

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“To run from reality is to avoid the very thing that our dreams are made of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: aspirations, dreams, escape, flee, frightened, reality, run

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“Too often passion is actually flight in disguise and therefore nothing of passion at all.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

tags: deceptive, escape, fear, flee, flight, passion, passionate, run, surrender

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“Diversions and detours of our grandest designs only serve to bolster our need to be in the places that we’re vigorously trying to walk away from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

tags: avoid, deny, detours, diversion, flee, flight, justify, rationalize, retreat

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“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: battle, bravery, cowardice, exhausted, fatigue, fight, flee, retreat, tired

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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’s laying in the bed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: distancing, fear, flee, flight, foolish, naive, running, truck

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“Will we stand on the world stage and fight for justice or will we flee the theatre?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: battle, bravery, cowardice, fight, flee, justice, war, world

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“Flee while there is still time and then stop to catch your last breath.”
― Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed

tags: death, flee, time

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“You can deny the battle, but it’s much harder to deny the death that you’ll experience in having denied the battle within which you died.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: battles, consequences, cowardice, death, denial, denying, flee

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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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: construct, defense, defense-mechanisms, flee, god, life, lost, withdraw

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“It would behoove me to realize that I can’t 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 ‘strong hold’ on me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: flee, fleeing, god, safety, searching, stronghold, withdrawal

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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.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

tags: flee, gain, lose, sexual-immorality

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“If truth were to be told, how often is being ‘lost’ a result of the decision I have made to never be ‘found’?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: choices, decisions, escape, fear, flee, foolish, lost, running, truth

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“The essential ingredients for the best self that you can create is found in the self that you’re running from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: cultivate, flee, foolishness, gender, identity, ingredients, run, self-identity

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“To walk in the woods is not to run from life. Rather, it’s to observe how life should be done in order to build a culture that won’t require any running.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: culture, flee, life, living, run, society, thoughtful, wisdom, woods

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