At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands. — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“You have to do what feels right for you. Do not let anyone influence you otherwise. It is your mind, your heart,… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to… — Richard Crossman Copy Share Image
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Learning to live again wholeheartedly includes letting love flow freely in and out of your heart — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain… — John B. Tabb Copy Share Image
The Days turned into weeks The Weeks turned into months And soon the months will turn into years But knowing that I… — Kellen Masters Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
With all his greatness and accomplishments on the guitar, Dime will be missed more for his giving personality, charisma, caring for others,… — Vinnie Paul Abbott Copy Share Image
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
It must be very strange to live in the world of Willie Nelson or Bruce Springsteen or Pearl Jam. I don't know… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to… — Anna White Copy Share Image
The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pretty hurts, we shine the light on whatever's worst Perfection is a disease of a nation, pretty hurts, pretty hurts Pretty hurts,… — Beyoncé Knowles Copy Share Image
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to… — Richard Alleine Copy Share Image
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions. — Gerald Lawson Sittser Copy Share Image
“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“In the kitchen, her family nibbled Helen’s lemon squares. Melanie urged brownies on the nurses. “Take these,” she told Lorraine. “We can’t… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I think that youth culture is now very deliberately designed by both corporate entities and by governments to not involve people directly.… — Thea Gilmore Copy Share Image
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
![“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/700/c-s-lewis-2-132_anticipate_when-we-lose-one-blessing-another-is-oft_2230316.jpg)