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Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.
I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable.
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.
I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.
Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.
Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.
Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.
When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities.
As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.
Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.
I challenge the challenges. I like to face the problems. I don't run away from them. Whatever loss I have to face it, I face it.
Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.
At the end of the day, great champions can take a good loss and great champions can take a good win, just like they take a loss.
O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
My future is about the joy of loving those around me, of being with the people who are still here and not just mourning my loss.
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.
Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark
I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.
The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.
Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.
Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.
I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.
Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.
It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.
Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.