Quotes of: Losses Keyword

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

Washington Irving

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

George Kennedy

Journeying through grief is one of the most "normal human" experiences you can have. Nevertheless, all too frequently the heartbroken seem to feel alienated by society. Unfortunately in our culture, we are taught to hold our feelings in. If someone a...

Creative Grieving: A Hip Chick's Path from Loss to Hope

By daily contrition, and habitual mortification of the flesh, man is day by day RENEWED, bearing heavenly fruits and celestial graces, of an inexplicable sweetness. Contrariwise, the pleasure of the world bringeth heaviness of heart, vexation of spir...

Johann Arndt: True Christianity

Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers' deaths, how loss had leaked all over her mother's life like a stain. As a fourteen-year-old, Isabel had searched the dic...

The Light Between Oceans

Growing up seems easier for men, maybe because their rites of passage are clearer. They perform acts of bravery on the battlefield or show they're men through physical labor or by making money. For women, it's more confusing. We have no rites of pass...

Suzanne Elizabeth Phillips

Involvement with the eight worldly dharmas keeps beings imprisoned in the realms of samsara and renders them susceptible to the hosts of emotions. The eight worldly dharmas are: praise and blame, gain and loss, fame and disgrace, happiness and suffer...

Ways of Enlightenment

The potential for loss of soul--to one degree or another--is the affliction of a society that as a collective has lost its sense of the holy, of a culture that values everything else above the spiritual. We live in such a spiritually impoverished cul...

Daphne Rose Kingma

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

City of Heavenly Fire

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

Clockwork Princess

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

Cross Roads

You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?

The Death of Edwin Hubble

Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends.

Excursions in my Mind

There are times when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss.

The Firebird

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

A Familiar Rain

... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.

Gifts

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

Behind the Hospital

For best results, apply regularly.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

Write a complaint letter. Then answer it.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

Give yourself a break to avoid a breakdown.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

Time not only heals, time reveals

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses