Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It is okay to release your feelings when you feel the waves coming. It's all part of the process of having to… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“I know why she cried like that. She cried because she wasn't finished grieving the loss of me. When someone has an… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The fruits of the economy and all the advantages of technology and globalization have gone far more to the investor class and… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Long before we even lose our lives, we lose our souls. Tragic but true. Some carry on—willing to make the sacrifices, putting… — Joanne Crisner Copy Share Image
Just remember, loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. If there is something that still wounds… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
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The traditional American husband and father had the responsibilities-and the privileges-of playing the role of primary provider. Sharing that role is not… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
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Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
“... The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them,… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
“The fact is that when you admit that you can’t blame anyone or anything else, you begin to blame yourself. The human… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“It was a second. A blink. The flap of a bird's wing, the moment it takes to say hello, or goodbye. So… — Aditi Khorana Copy Share Image
A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
There's something very noble about bringing home a paycheck to provide for oneself and one's family. However, there's so much more to… — David Kim Copy Share Image
I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I… — Henry Scott Holland Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“{She} considered mentioning...how she, to, was all alone. But it didn't matter. So many stupid ways to live and die. She felt… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone… — Bart Chilton Copy Share Image
You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
We noted the psychological problems facing many of the returning from Iraq veterans - of the 700,000 returning veterans, more than a… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
