I stop
Examples
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.
A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.