The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“No matter who you are, life is desperately hard sometimes. People we love die, and the longer we live, the more we… — Allyson Dinneen Copy Share Image
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“One of the things that helps use cope with loss is the fact that while memories may remian, the emotions associated with… — James Pratt Copy Share Image
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“The moon got loose last night, and slid down and fell out of the scheme–a very great loss; it breaks my heart… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“If what you achieve today is equal to what you achieved yesterday, then you are at a loss. And if what you… — Ali-Ibne-Abu Talib Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
t's important to handle and learn from your defeats. The losses I've had taught me so much because they humbled me. You… — Diego Sanchez Copy Share Image
When I first came round in the medical center after my accident, the first face I saw was Ayrton's, with tears in… — Rubens Barrichello Copy Share Image
Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Mishka would pine for Katerina the rest of his life! Never again would he walk Nevsky Prospekt, however they chose to rename… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
My parents' loss was compensated by the birth of my son Aryan and daughter Suhana. I believe they're my parents. In comparison… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“You think you're lost but you're not lost on your own. You're not alone. I will stand by you, I will help… — Rascal Flatts Copy Share Image
Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
I think 'Historian' is ultimately a positive record, but I was a little bit worried about taking people into a dark world.… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
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“The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
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