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Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.
You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.
Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
Whether it was the 9/11 attacks, Paris shooting, or the attack on the Taj, people across the world mourn the collective loss.
We lose things all the time. We lose ourselves every day. We lose our minds occasionally. But it's just a part of life, loss.
I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.
I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)
The reality of heaven doesn't take away the pain of or suffering or our losses, but it assures us that our pain is temporary.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.
We are all shocked and saddened by the devastating and untimely loss of Kimbo Slice, a beloved member of the Bellator family.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.
When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?
Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.
I haven't had too many tragedies in my family where there has been a loss or even an accident. I've been lucky in that sense.
I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.
The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.
Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!
For both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratiothere are no shortcuts.
When you eat foods high in fiber, you feel full faster, making you less likely to overeat and more likely to have weight loss.
In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.
Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
You can't operate a business running at a loss, and particularly if you're doing it by paying yourselves. It just doesn't fly.
It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?
The Glycemic Index is one the best tools for fat loss. It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream.
He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.
There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.
Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.
People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.
No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.