Best Loss Wisdom
2897 Loss quotes by 1935 unique authors
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If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to…
— Marjorie Garber
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The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.
— Unknown Author
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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him…
— Willie Morris
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The dog without his master was like a body without a soul.
— Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to…
— William A. Niskanen
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In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.
— Unknown Author
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And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you…
— Seneca the Younger
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Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything…
— Stephen Levine
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The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
— Sigmund Freud
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said,…
— Zhuangzi
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We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
— William Osler
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People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.
— Jena Malone
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Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends…
— Henry Mitchell
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I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the…
— Deacon Jones
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the…
— Hal Porter
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The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so…
— Kevin Rudd
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Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness…
— Colleen McCullough
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The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen that in my…
— Rick Pitino
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You are worth so much more than points on a scoreboard or wins vs. losses. The best athletes I know are also some of the…
— Unknown Author
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I want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do it safely, without the loss of human life, and democratically: where…
— Michio Kaku
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Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for…
— Barbara Stocking
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Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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