Loss Quotes - Page 38

• For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Ignorance, Knowledge

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 482

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• The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by helping others who are truly needy. We promise those who will render this kind of service that, in some measure, you will be healed of the loss of loved ones or the dread of being alone. The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Love, Feel Better, Helping Others

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• When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sweet

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• Embrace opportunities with limited downside, unlimited upside. The best deals are those where your risk of loss is predictable and fixed if things go wrong, while your potential gains are enormous if things go right. Take such deals whenever you can get them if the odds of success are halfway decent.

  Steve Pavlina

  Business, Opportunity, Odds

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• Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Business, Cities

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• The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

  Albert Camus

  Love Is, Rights, Happiness And Love

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Happiness, Romantic Love, Feelings

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• Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

  Jean Liedloff

  Children, Disappointment, Learning

  Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Country, Self

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• Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

  James Hillman

  Time, Soul

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• Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

  Bertrand Russell

  Faith, Religious, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.30, Routledge

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• The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

  Bobby Baldwin

  Winning, Player, Intangible Quality

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• There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.

  Peter London

  Wise, Art, Mean

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Giving, Shining

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.2911, Delphi Classics

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• Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors that turn out to be true and errors that turn out to be false (which are most of them). But they both have the same character of being an imaginative speculation. I say all this because I want very much to talk about the human side of discovery and progress, and it seems to me terribly important to say this in an age in which most non-scientists are feeling a kind of loss of nerve.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Character, Two, Errors

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.84, Yale University Press

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• MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

  Chris Kyle

  Regret, Marine, People

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• You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

  John Noble Holcomb

  Impact, Volunteer, Community

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• Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
  How are you dealing with your awful debility,
  lessened utility and loss of mobility?

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Mobility, Awful

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• Love is like a lighthouse, a beacon in the dark. When you lose the path that lights your way, you feel that you have died, but I assure you, you have not. You are reaching out for help or you would not have found this page. So red these quotations, allow yourself to feel your pain and cry out your loss and anguish. As you let it go, you will find the strength and courage to put your relationship in perspective and move on.

  Laura Ramirez

  Pain, Moving, Dark

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• A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Essays, Of Solitude, 1922.

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• I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

  Helen Keller

  Mean, Men, Voice

  Helen Adams Keller (1933). “Helen Keller in Scotland: A Personal Record Written by Herself”

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• Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Distance, Fall

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.81, Modern Library

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• The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

  Ronald Reagan

  Ears, Columbia, Hearing Loss

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• What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Life, Eye, Blessing

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• Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

  Andrew Miller

  Mean, Talking, Listening

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