Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.
Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!
It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.
There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.
The more the discomfort or the pain or loss, the better you are able to focus and change course of your life!
We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.
Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat - these are the alternations of the world, the workings of fate. Day and night they change place before us, and wi...
When he first said my diagnosis, I couldn't believe it. There must be another PTSD than post-traumatic stress disorder, I thought. I have only heard of war veterans who have served on the front lines and seen the horrors of battle being diagnosed wit...
I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones, our friends, our powers of work and pleasure, our landmarks, the days of our allotted time. One by one, the way we lose them, they return to us and a...
