Quotes about loss
loss people everyday
In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life. Katie Leclerc
loss order play
In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.
loss ears four
I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.
loss people world
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis. Margaret Chan
loss winning appreciate
what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you. Mark Twain
loss thinking phoenix
When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss. Leonardo DiCaprio
loss emotional thinking
I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.
loss age youth
In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. Leonardo da Vinci
loss intelligent
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
loss issues sick
Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
loss lost mourn
It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost. Lev Grossman
loss sorrow tears
Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good. Leigh Hunt
loss keys elements
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. Laurence D. Fink
loss hands oysters
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture -- 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and... Lauren Willig
loss get-over
There are some losses we never get over. Lauren Oliver
loss looks weight
Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa. P. J. O'Rourke
loss light darkness
Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this. Paul Celan
loss language spite
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
loss figures teach
Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along. Patti Davis
loss life-is worst
The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing. Patricia McConnell
loss satisfaction kind
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. Ivan Illich
loss choices may
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss. Isaiah Berlin
loss perfect choices
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.
loss justice choices
Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.
loss thinking numbers
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency. Irvin D. Yalom
loss born grows
Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives. Gloria Vanderbilt
loss lament stirring
When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring. J. M. Coetzee
loss objectivity practice
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny. Nancy Pearcey
loss cutting weight-loss
Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out. Kathy Freston
loss light trying
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma. Julian Clary
loss weight week
When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries. Kirstie Alley
loss men two
I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men. Kim Harrison
loss medical fit
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so. Kay Redfield Jamison