Losing Something Quotes
40 quotes by 34 authors
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Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you…
— Yoko Ogawa
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Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully.…
— Eckhart Tolle
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As a species, we're not only wired to choose today over tomorrow, but we hate to feel like we're losing out on something. The bottom…
— Tony Robbins
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You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the…
— Miguel Syjuco
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Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save…
— Ronald A. Heifetz
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The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable…
— Erich Fromm
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I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this
— Richard Brautigan
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People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer,…
— Michael Ende
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Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
— Jodi Picoult
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But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the…
— Emily Giffin
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And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just…
— Cynthia Rylant
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The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I'm lucky...that…
— Ai Yazawa
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what…
— Haruki Murakami
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I’m lucky that I’m afraid of losing something
— Ai Yazawa
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I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.
— Jodi Picoult
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He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been…
— Patricia Briggs
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There’s no such thing as a painless lesson, they just don’t exist. Sacrifices are necessary; you can’t gain anything without losing something first. Although, if…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your…
— R A Salvatore
Who Wrote These Losing Something Quotes
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