Quotes about loss
loss views effort
We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true. Nikola Tesla
loss sarcasm mind
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
loss years healthy
Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days. Mike Moreno
loss loses
We only keep what we lose. May Sarton
loss light joy
This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other. Marilynne Robinson
loss dark wings
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love. Pablo Neruda
loss appreciate comfort
We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss. Plautus
loss action global-warming
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity. Martin Rees
loss fighting independence
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. Lech Walesa
loss order law
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long. Peter De Vries
loss thinking lost-friendship
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. Penelope Lively
loss love-is conquer-the-world
Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender. Paulo Coelho
loss winning wins-and-losses
You control your own wins and losses. Maria Sharapova
loss tiny enormous
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny. Meghan O'Rourke
loss feelings might
Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings. Meghan O'Rourke
loss faces different
Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death. Meghan O'Rourke
loss thinking way
Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc. Meghan O'Rourke
loss past self
There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got to be with that person. And the seeming loss of the past, which now feels forever out of reach. Meghan O'Rourke
loss lost-ones alive
One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most. Meghan O'Rourke
loss insomnia people
December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone. Max Lucado
loss self secret
For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves? May Sarton
loss law privilege
If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities. Max Heindel
loss exercise goal
The hardest thing was going through different stages of weight loss. At the beginning, it was easy to take off the weight with exercise and eating less but then you reach a point where 90% of the weight loss is achieved purely through reducing your calorie intake. My goal was to lose four lbs per week and that worked well for the first few months but then things got tricky. Matthew McConaughey
loss first-love love-is
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. Maya Angelou
loss games play
If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours. Marilyn Manson
loss practice suffering
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. Merton Miller
loss effort losing
My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses. Mason Cooley
loss progress may
Progress may feel more like loss than gain. Mason Cooley
loss paradise sentimental
No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise. Mason Cooley
loss attachment bereavement
Attachments and bereavements are inseparable. Mason Cooley
loss lasts lost
Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved. Mason Cooley
loss curves path
At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough. Mason Cooley
loss helping-others use
My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss. Marvin Sapp