The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
I have know idea what you must be going through in losing what I think is the single most important compass in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence,… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Our lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us to attend to our emotional selves and to learn new… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad,… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
“You were the colors to my monochrome life. My morning light and my midnight dream. Flawed, yet whole. You used to think… — Bhavya Kaushik Copy Share Image
“If there is anything certain in life, it is this. Time doesn't always heal. Not really. I know they say it does,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Familiar Squatter by Stewart Stafford Stranger at a ranting roundabout, Changeling deep in a cranial fog, An infant brooked with abandon,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I wonder if at this point, I mean, given [Donald's Trump] noted inability to deal with shame, humiliation and loss, and what… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the… — Mirah Copy Share Image
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“I didn't mean to scare you. I'm not suicidal if that's what's freaking you out. I'm not fucked up in the head.… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“We’re expected to go back to work immediately, keep moving, to get on with our lives. But it doesn’t work that way.… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Here was a whole life Beth had missed, a hole where a life should have been. But then, he thought, the universe… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
No, it was the brutal loss of his family that haunted him and for that Nykyrian couldn’t fault him at all. Syn… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“we match,” I say, and as soon as the words are out I already know that tomorrow will come and I will… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul's perspective, you are… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
“For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Your mom was such a lovely woman. I often think about all the times we spent together and all the amazing meals… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
A lot of people approach their barn or horse like they are going to war, because it's been going badly. So you… — Cindy Meehl Copy Share Image
Our actions to overthrow secular dictators in Iraq and Libya, and attempts now to do the same in Syria, have resulted in… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image