FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.
You can see the size of people’s dreams from their profit and loss calculations
You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
It is important to recognize when you have been detached from life for too long. The fact is you are still alive, and I can only imagine that your loved one would want you to go on living. I highly doubt they would have said to you, "When or if I die...
It's my own deep-rooted feeling that our souls never truly die and that life continues in some way. I know I need to have patience as my beliefs continue to evolve with my personal growth. As I've looked around at the things I do have in my life, I'v...
No successes we might have are guaranteed to last as long as industrial civilization stands. Conversely, most of our losses are effectively permanent. Extinct species cannot be resurrected. Overdrawn aquifers or clear-cut forests will not return to t...
What was I going to do? The choices seemed basic and slim: Die. Exist. Live. I wanted to die, but with two young children to care for and a husband, that wasn't an option. Exist. I could do that. I was doing that now. but how flat and lifeless. How d...
Gratitude opens the heart and infuses the mental, physical and emotional body with tenderness, patience and peace—and in time, even joy. In a state of gratitude, anger and bitterness fade away. But to reach this place from a place of loss and grief...
The English language lacks the words to mourn an absence. For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend, we have all manner of words and phrases, some helpful some not. Still we are conditioned to say something, even if it is only �...
Chuang-tzu once told a story about two persons who both lost a sheep. One person got very depressed and lost himself in drinking, sex, and gambling to try to forget this misfortune. The other person decided that this would be an excellent chance for ...
Mary remained weeping for her friend Jesus who had been all the world to her, and whose death ad meant the loss of that world. With great courage to be alone, and great courage to love despite devastating loss, she struggled to carry on, hoping to fi...
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know.
...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.
