Stop Hiding Quotes

#1. I've got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.

Deatri King-Bey

#2. We spend too much time concealing our neediness. We need to stop hiding. Being needy is our basic condition. There is no shame in it - it's just the way it is. Understanding this, accepting it, and practicing it will make you a better helper.

Edward T. Welch

#3. You're so much happier than when I first met you." He tucks my bangs behind my ear. "I wish you could be this way around everyone, Callie. That you would stop hiding from everyone. It's sad no one gets to see how great you are.

Jessica Sorensen

#4. Things are never lost to you; you are lost to them. If ever in need of a Thing that has lost you, simply stop hiding from it.

Shannon Hale

#5. Stop hiding your light to make others feel comfortable, instead SHINE so they can be INSPIRED.

Julia Anderson

#6. I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

Diana Wynne Jones

#7. Amazing things happen when you stop hiding behind that hulking beast.

Gayle Forman

#8. I needed to stop hiding: I was raped. It was time to honestly be exactly who I was. I saw - the shame wasn't mine, it was his, and I could stop misrepresenting myself, and I could accept myself.

Aspen Matis

#9. If you get sick again? Alec, stop hiding behind that. We start dying the day we are born. If everyone thought the way you do, no one would ever go after their dreams. There would be a ton of unhappy people moping around.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#10. Please stop hiding and actually live your life." He pauses long enough to squeeze my shoulder. "It's killing me to watch you fade into the background.

Aly Martinez

#11. Stop hiding condoms in my stuff. It's like some twisted Easter egg hunt in there.

Alyxandra Harvey

#12. What I really wish is that religious leaders could truly understand what the Bible is and stop trying to use it for hatred. I wish they could just stop hiding behind the Bible and live up to the fact that what they really stand for when they are bashing gays is small-minded bigotry.

Judith E. Snow

#13. Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.

Tara Brach

#14. Anyone who loves the concept of Zero Harm obviously has nothing to love

Dave Collins

#15. We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

Shimon Peres

#16. It makes it very hard for us to warn people about the wolves when the leaders of the sheep are associating with the wolves.

Justin Peters

#17. If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

Stefanie Schneider

#18. Often," she said, "physical ailments drive the mental. The brain is an organ, after all. Someday, people will understand that better and stop treating mental disorders as if they're this untouchable entity separated from the biological, like an ugly secret hiding beneath our skulls.

Anne McAneny

#19. I learned how to stop crying.
I learned how to hide inside of myself.
I learned how to be somebody else.
I learned how to be cold and numb.

Sherman Alexie

#20. Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect, and walk into freedom.

Rick Warren

#21. Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.

Anthony Liccione

#22. My life is cozy, but I'm starting to let myself think I want something wet and aching stabbed through it. I want something substantial. I want to gorge myself. Excess.

Mary Ann Rivers

#23. It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

Beth Henley

#24. I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served.

Stephanie Adams

#25. Autumn is a season of desperate hopes. The leaves are souls begging to turn life on pause. Begging to stop, begging to take a break, hiding under smiles and childish words.

Teodora Savu

#26. Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Sojourner Truth

#27. Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. Rest in your God-breathed worth. Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, ducking your head, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling your hands, quieting your voice, and satiating your hunger with the lesser things of this world.

Sarah Bessey

#29. Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.

Yasmin Mogahed

#30. I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Seth Rogen

#31. You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

Howard Rheingold

#32. If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.

George Saunders

#33. Stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people'
read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

Sylvia Plath

#34. Don't pass off your work to the new girl just because you don't like it." Kai winked at me as he moved back to his computer.
... "Stop going easy on the new girl just because you like her."
"Shut up, Will."
"What? You didn't want her to know? You're not hiding it very well." - Kai and Will

H.R. Willaston

#35. We can stop and see if the library has a copy of Hiding from the Mob in Ten Easy Steps. Maybe there'll be some tip in there that I've missed.

Suzanne Brockmann

#36. Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#37. Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

Cynthia Voigt

#38. In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day."
"When did he finally stop?" I asked.
"Yesterday.

Maria V. Snyder

#39. I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

Robert Baer

#40. I had an irritating flash of nervousness, wondering if he was right outside - or across the street, or downstairs, or hiding in a closet. Because I couldn't stop myself, I rushed to the hall closet and flung it open to make sure. Packed

Cherie Priest