Psychology Quote by Augustine of Hippo

“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for…

— Barry Unsworth

“Isn’t that how it always is? Just when you think you’ve lost something so precious, you can’t ever recover from it . . .…

— Bob Burg

“Our lives are full of things. Disposable distractions, stuff you buy but do not cherish, own yet never love. Thrown away in weeks, rather…

— The De Beers Family of Companies

“How much of our lives is spent in reverie, in wishing for what cannot be, in regretting what might have been avoided. These obsessions…

— David K. Reynolds

“I’ve always had some kind of connection to the things I’ve owned. Losing them left me feeling bereft because they were linked to everyone…

— Amy Huntley

“Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !”

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“So next time you are browsing through an antique store, or next time you see an old chair or doll or book sitting on…

— Roger P. Mills

“This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them…

— Orhan Pamuk

“These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we would never…

— Nicole Krauss

“Yet you still value the things you’ve lost the most. Because the things you’ve lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted.…

— Iain Thomas

“Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious.”

— Victoria Alexander

“My most precious memories were closely guarded secrets and I only looked at them occasionally, taking them out of my Pandora’s Box of the…

— Jane Harvey-Berrick