“I wish I could hold time in my hands. I wish I could talk to it. Oh, how I would ask it… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss… — Alicia Coppola 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
You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I think living in the West, we live in a culture where everybody strives for perfection, whether it's in body, health, spirit,… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how well you are doing,” John complimented me just a few minutes after he mentioned the Christmas card.… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“Losing a sibling, especially in youth, is a particular blow, a lateral loss of shared history and DNA that lacerates your identity.… — Ann Gisleson Copy Share Image
We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“We don't know predestined ways, or what future might behold, someone leaves,someone remains, and new things replace the old. We don't know… — Aleksandra Ninkovic Copy Share Image
When I hear health professionals suggesting that you shouldn't worry about the balance of calories in versus calories out, but rather eat… — Chalene Johnson Copy Share Image
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“you call me to tell me you miss me i turn to face the front door of the house waiting for a… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Here's the truth of the matter: growth is not the goal of grieving. Nor is it a mark that someone has grieved… — Eleanor Haley Copy Share Image
One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
The AXA and New York Life settlements are important building blocks not only toward seeking financial recovery for the losses resulting from… — Mark Geragos Copy Share Image
Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Losing Paul to time was far from the worst thing to happen to me, but the feeling doesn't always match the loss.… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
A smart couple with a healthy financial relationship is always talking about money and how they're handling it. If there's a medical… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
“Looking at death can be life-affirming. It doesn’t need to mire us in thoughts of uselessness, nihilism, self-recrimination, and indifference to the… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“You worry about your parents, siblings, spouses dying, yet no one prepares you for your friends dying. Every time you flip through… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
Our real human nature is revealed better when we are confronted with limited situations, and I think that life itself is an… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Grief lingers, and the ache of loss; those things don't change. But seeping into every leaf, a little guilty burns away each… — Sean Stewart Copy Share Image
Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image