Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:   escape

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
~Ayn Rand

Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.
~Lauren Oliver

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.
~John Cusack

EndQuote:
Fear has two meanings, forget everything and run, or face everything and rise. The choice is yours.
~Zig Ziglar

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Prewritten Prompt for late July:   awe

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When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
~NoViolet Bulawayo

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth’s surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.
~Charles Lyell

We all share one planet and are one humanity, there is no escaping this reality.
~Wangari Maathai

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Abraham Lincoln

Not that running away’s going to solve everything. I don’t want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn’t count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.
~Haruki Murakami

There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?
~Isaac Asimov

There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth’s gravity
~Forest Ray Moulton

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Posted From The Grove

In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.
~Judith Lewis Herman

The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
~Alan Dershowitz

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
~James L Buckley

I’m not in favor of the death penalty. But I’m in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
~John Grisham

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I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.
~Jesse James

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.
~Klaus Fuchs

You don’t need to know what you’re escaping from to become a fugitive.
~Bella Pollen

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one’s life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.
~Robin Hobb

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~Brightside:  7 Self-Defense Techniques for Women   (8:24)   escapes recommended by professionals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7aNSRoDCmg

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~Mr Bean:  JUDO Bean   (12:34)   um … comedy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mSr6GgQV2Y

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Great Animal Escapes:
~BBC Earth:  Triumph of the Herbivores/Prey Escapes Predator (4:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtnLNmB3ZNE

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Great Kitty Escapes
~jenawesome:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUTOtrQrSY   (2:08)

~linehead10:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md4c7XZNgYg   (0:22)

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She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn’t come. She was running again, but she wasn’t escaping. She’d been chased to ground a long, long time ago.
~Connie Brockway

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
~Steve Jobs

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
~Samuel Johnson

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
~Voltaire

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The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run – will not try to escape.
~Jack Henry Abbott

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
~Anne Sullivan Macy

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
~William S Burroughs

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The hardest prison to escape is in your mind.
~Anonymous

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds.
~Pema Chödrön

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, “Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison.” And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, “Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.”
~Khalil Gibran

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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

It isn’t running away they’re afraid of. We wouldn’t get far. It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.
~Margaret Atwood

If you think you’re free, no escape is possible.
~Herb Cohen

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VIDEO:

You can escape into a character.
~John Candy

I’m the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
~Helena Bonham Carter

I love escaping into character. It’s a chance to try on people that you wouldn’t be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
~Andrea Corr

When you’re acting, you’re escaping and hiding behind something. It’s cliched to say, but there’s a safety there.
~Tamsin Egerton

That’s why I’m an actress — escaping into a world.
~Julie Walters

When you get into any kind of period work, or any kind of prosthetic work, or anything that alters what your 8×10 looks like, it’s the joy of escaping and becoming somebody else. And it is definitely freeing.
~Scott Bakula

While it’s really hard to do, at the same time, I’m escaping my body, which I really want to do. I’m living someone else’s life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I’m experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don’t have in my physical life.
~Laura Hillenbrand

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
~Anthony Hecht

Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I’m a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I’ve got Tourette’s. My mouth won’t quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I’m reading aloud, my Adam’s apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.
~Jonathan Lethem

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Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn’t fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.
~Anne Heche

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
~Oscar Wilde

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I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a certain feeling, and then when I saw the photograph of her, it gave me a similar feeling. And I thought that was an incredibly powerful thing — that a photograph could give you a feeling that was similar to a feeling you had in the physical world. Nobody could’ve told me that. I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.
~Henry Wessel, Jr

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.
~Scarlett Johansson

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Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.
~Shahrukh Khan

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.
~Neil LaBute

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film — and even enjoy it — in a state of mindless passivity.
~Paul Auster

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength.
~Terry Goodkind

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
~David Mitchell

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.
~Muna Adnan Naqi

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.
~Brandon Sanderson

Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
Into different lives, or into any future;
You are not the same people who left that station
Or who will arrive at any terminus,
While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
~T S Eliot

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I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
~Ben Barnes

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not be the best tendency to have when you’re trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily — artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.
~Lykke Li

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~Barr Pictures Media:  Hesitation   (1:33)   when apples escape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qzMfgtf_GI

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~Omeleto:  Neon   (15:07)   what, then, when death fails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fm4bzUdlxY

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~Omeleto:  Ride or Die   (14:02)   doomsday escape, a comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXEudmUoGM

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~Omeleto:  Beneath The Surface   (19:02)   escape?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=529_Rk0LWkU

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There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.
~Kami Garcia

“I said your hair is coming undone — here,” he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of the carriage. “You have to be careful with it,” he said, taking his hand back, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek.
~Cassandra Clare

A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.
~Jeanine Larmoth

The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! She slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i’m still waking up but she’s still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead
~Maggie Stiefvater

You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.
~Markus Zusak

Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature, — may almost say, “I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now.”
~Leigh Hunt

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You can’t escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother’s clam chowder. It’s security, comfort. It brings you home.
~Jacques Pepin

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.
~Chantal Kreviazuk

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn’t just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom’s voice that I came out of my hiding place.
~Zhang Ziyi

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MUSIC:

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
~Paulo Coehlo

But nothing was as important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.
~Claudia Gray

No escaping when I start,
once I’m in I own your heart
~Adam Lambert

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart.
How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart.
Those escape your anger who refuse your sway,
and those are punished most, who most obey.
~Matthew Prior

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can’t say I do like it very much.
~Doris Lessing

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.
~Clare Boothe Luce

She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die.
~Michael Grant

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Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you – the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love – may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.
~Frederick Weisel

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
~George William Curtis

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I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she’s always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.
~Umberto Eco

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
~Bertrand Russell

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
~Bell Hooks

When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
~Adyashanti

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~Bob Dylan: Drifter’s Escape, from Masked and anonymous   (3:10)   telling breakaway scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYieuHEvUM

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~James Taylor:  Carolina in My Mind   (5:05)   after he was young before mellowing into ageless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67343pHUW5o

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~John Mayer:  Route 66, in  Cars   (3:21) cross country escapade, Disney hits the high spots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-N0YZkZ1gs

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~Pink:  The Great Escape   (2:59)   loyalty, to the rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrUhVotJ2hs

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~Gwen Stefani:  The Sweet Escape   (4:06)   bad girl wants second chance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lf_fE3HwA

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~Tiesto: Escape Me, ft. CC Sheffield   (3:39)   slick dj dare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CeTyIWiBc4

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~A R Rahman & Asad Khan: Mausam & Escape, from Slumdog Millionaire   (4:24)   sitar sensation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PL00SCVBZE

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~Naughty Boy:  La la la, ft. Sam Smith   (4:03)   mystical, epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O1_3zBUKM8

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~Ludacris:  Runaway Love,  ft. Mary J Blige   (5:01)   3 running for life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISvMS6s41vY

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~Kelly Clarkson:  Breakaway   (3:55)   taking to the sky, saying goodbye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-3vPxKdj6o

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I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
~Thom Yorke

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It’s a platform where we could offer information, but it’s also an escape.
~Busta Rhymes

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They’re not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
~Pitbull

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
~Roland Barthes

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
~Shania Twain

Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.
~Yanni

I’m interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create.
~David Lloyd

Singing is a way of escaping. It’s another world. I’m no longer on earth.
~Edith C Ransom

Elvis’ early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
~Greil Marcus

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.
~Gyorgy Ligeti

If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music.
~Charles Mingus

Mozart’s music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
~Leonard Bernstein

Music should be your escape.
~Missy Elliot

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If you’re drunk please don’t drive. If you’re on shrooms please don’t think Walmart’s a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.
~Dane Cook

They’re not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
~Steve Buscemi

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
~Bram Stoker

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.
~Pierre Fresnay

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
~Langston Hughes

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
~Christopher Fry

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On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.
~Rick Mercer

Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.
~Channing Tatum

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”
~Logan P Smith

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
~Thomas Wolfe

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
~Ransom Riggs

War, the ordinary man’s most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
~Philip Caputo

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People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.
~Eugene J Martin

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him!!
~Bruce Lee

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.
~George Bernard Shaw

It’s not so much about killing an animal, it’s being at peace and you don’t have to worry about all the other things that go on. That’s a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it’s nice to do that.
~Brett Favre

Games are a way of escaping reality — that’s why you need heroic factor.
~Hideo Kojima

The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.
~Alfred Sheinwold

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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
~Samuel Johnson

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.
~Thorstein Veblen

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
~Peter L Berger

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it’s always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
~Oriana Fallaci

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
~John Maynard Keynes

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My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.
~Ruta Sepetys

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
~Dennis Prager

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.
~Tim Ryun

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
~William Hague

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
~Salman Rushdie

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
~Thomas Mann

What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.
~Robert F Kennedy, Jr

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
~Isaac Asimov

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don’t know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
~Daniel Barenboim

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
~Margaret Mead

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
~Edward Gibbon

When my dreams showed signs
of becoming
politically correct
no unruly images
escaping beyond borders
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then I began to wonder
~Adrienne Rich

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@Writers Platform:

There’s this great Ron Carlson story, “A Note on the Type,” and it’s about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He’s really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can’t stop writing his name on underpasses where he’s running from the law. And there’s this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it’s obviously about the writer’s life.
~Pam Houston

A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
~E B White

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
~Walter Mosley

Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.
~Monica Ali

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.
~James Branch Cabell

I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn’t be more right. I’m escaping a world I don’t like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.
~Philip K Dick

The very word ‘fiction’ implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer — the sci-fi one especially — is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it’s tough, it’s fun, it’s practical, and it’s…important.
~Russell T Davies

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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
~Lawrence Durrell

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
~Caitlin Flanagan

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~T S Eliot

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
~Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.
~Welly Odendo

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
~James Lane Allen

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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
~Viola Davis

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
~Peter Wright

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

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An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.
~Bryant McGill

If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. When you stop being like other people, they stop liking you. That’s just how it goes. There’s no escaping it. And it’s okay. What you need to understand about that disapproval is that it’s a sign you’re doing something right.
~Darren Hardy

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
~Joseph Addison

To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
~Elbert Hubbard

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
~Marcus Aurelius

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
~Henry Home

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Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols… Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
~Hakim Bey

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.
~John Constable

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business — not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into … rhetoric and plot.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel… Think about it. There’s escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.
~Margaret Atwood

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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.
~Lloyd Alexander

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.
~Colin Wilson

We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
~Lynda Barry

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
~Alice Hoffman

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Fantasy is escapism, but wait… Why is this wrong? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy — the ability to envisage the world in many different ways — is one of the skills that make us human.
~Terry Pratchett

I don’t think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you’re craving being in this other reality and you don’t want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.
~Joshua Mohr

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
~Michael Chabon

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The Glass Table:

~Stejovis,  expat of Uru & There.com

impromptu on shallow/bright

bright colored rose –
who can harbor
shallow thoughts

bright sunshine
in the morning
shallow teacup

bright sails
hang calm and silent –
shallow water

bright little ant –
pity that the puddle
is not shallow

a shallow sip
for such a vintage –
not very bright

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The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
~Fábio Moon

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
~Jean Paul

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
~Jose Bergamin

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Nobody actually ever does this — escaping through a window.
~Kevin James

Soul’s escaping through this hole that is gaping
~Eminem

One of them hissed — not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone — more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.
~Christopher Moore

In masks outrageous and austere,
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.
~Elinor Wylie

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When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn’t know what to say to myself.
~Michael Zaslow

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!
~Juana Inés de la Cruz

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one’s problems and sorrows with one.
~Elizabeth Aston

You can’t run away from yourself.
~Bob Marley

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Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
~Geraldine Chaplin

sloughing my skin
escaping it’s grip
stripped of my wit
it hurts to be me
~Maggie Stiefvater

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
~Patrick Rothfuss

You learned to run from what you feel, and that’s why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.
~Megan Chance

Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.
~Rama Swami

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To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.
~Giorgio de Chirico

I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.
~Carlo Rovelli

Ideas are etheric like dreams. Use them now, they will escape from your reality.
~Gordana Biernat

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
~Edgar Allan Poe

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Prewritten Prompt:   escape

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When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don’t have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.
~Julian Barnes

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn’t want to be a child.
~Maurice Sendak

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
~Abraham Verghese

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
~Clark Moustakas

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
~Margaret Atwood

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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in — there’s a reason a small town is called a small town: It’s because not many people want to live there.
~Billie Joe Armstrong

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
~Tom Ford

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.
~Teju Cole

I’m one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there’s no escaping it. We’re like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I’ll die.
~Adrian Grenier

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
~Sigmund Freud

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.
~William George Jordan

I’ve sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
~Danny Boyle

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I think you can’t really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it’s New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can’t escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
~Jack White

The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of Fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.
~Arthur W Pink

All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape
~Marilyn Manson

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.
~Frank Bidart

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A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.
~Benton MacKaye

I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.
~Alfred Wainwright

You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life.
~Dainin Katagiri

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The Exercise:

Dual Doggerels Dueling

Nostalgic

Now that nature’s a freak
The future looks bleak
Need a reason to stay?
Escape into yesterday
Nitflex sitcoms ’50s week

—

Lusty Randy

Bottled emotions at bay
Escape a reason to stray
Partner not a romancer?
HornPub is your answer
Short vacations away

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Catechism

Born to believe
in the one true God
sanctimony instilled
designated at birth
willing to kill
to conquer the Earth
for the g-d
you were born to
shorn and adorned to
the preapproved way
encouraged to prosecute
commanded to execute
bald of a conscience
the hairless ape
no hope for escape

Playing or listening
to sitar or guitar
mellowed out cello
or pounding piano
or simply drumming
fingers and thumbing
country or hip hop
classical Mozart
or classic rock
highbrow strains
or drugged and numb
no life-or-death call
for censoring music
no serious censure
4 luvin’ the lot

Exclusive access
to all things holy
or foolish with wisdom
universal inclusion
chanting and dancing
sacred versions of folly
to die in the clutches
of inherited religion
or fly without crutches
on the wings of a song

Jazz, no notes found false or wrong,
or creeds inscribed, Script in rote
sanctified life few pleasures found right
crown life’s ascension in musical notes
forsaking dogma the day doctrine died

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Progress

Needing love isn’t feeding love
quoth the misanthrope without a hope
Reading words isn’t heeding words
said the shaman, barely human
Breeding grounds where seedlings found
isn’t sexy done by proxy
Escaping strife by ending life
makes life’s wager even vaguer
Preaching God isn’t reaching God
announced the speaker getting bleaker
I’m getting better pledged the debtor
the former bettor now former fretter

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5s & 7s

crowded yet lonely
nurturing world in decline
love turned a traitor
aged body in rebellion
favors a grave for escape

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the word as defined
evade or run to escape
pros/cons for debate

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love was a prison
fled its chains, the heartache
escaped in jailbreak

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escapes damnation
clever homo sapiens
bribes God with its praise

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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. … Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
~Pearl S Buck

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.
~Robert Anthony

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don’t dwell.
~Michael Josephson

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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
~Leonardo da Vinci

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
~Jose Ortega y Gasset

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My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
~Andrea Gibson

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
~Jewish proverb

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~Ambrose Bierce

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.
~Morgan Llywelyn

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They [days past] provide a nostalgic escape from the tormented days of the present.
~Patrick Garry

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
~Wendell Berry

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The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
~Alan Watts

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
~J R R Tolkien

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We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.
~Kurt Cobain

That’s the thing about interviews, at some point you’re going to change your mind. But it’s there forever and you can’t escape it.
~Martha Plimpton

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
~Albert Schweitzer

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings… There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him, the moon and the wind would go on, rising and falling. The land would keep stretching ahead until it hit the sea. People would keep dying. It made no difference if Harold walked, or trembled, or stayed at home.
~Rachel Joyce

There’s no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing – dreams of escape.
~Julie Walters

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
~Doug Coupland

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
~Walter Bagehot

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
~Sophocles

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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~Henry Ward Beecher

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
~Aristotle

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
~John Fowles

Death was like love, a romantic escape.
~Brigitte Bardot

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Morning tide makes a great companion when you don’t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn’t ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.
~Anna Banks

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
~Charles Baudelaire

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
~Albert Einstein

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.
~Nicholas Sparks

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
~William Hazlitt

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
~Hugh MacDiarmid

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
~J Robert Oppenheimer

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
~Hannah Arendt

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
~Cesare Pavese

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It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s.
~Lupita Nyong’o

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
~George Eliot

Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
~Ani DiFranco

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
~Seth Godin

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
~Seneca The Younger

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Stop leaving and you will arrive,
Stop searching and you will see,
Stop running away and you will be found.
~Laozi

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