When you're young, the loss that you experience when you break up with somebody, that's the loss of a relationship. And the older you get, you actually lose people to death and you lose those relationships, too.
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
A loss is just a loss. You get up again, dust yourself off, go at it again regardless of the circumstances. That's the way I look at it.
When you inhabit any of these three roles, you're reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You're always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.
When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.
When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you.
Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.
A loss feels like a loss.
Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
We have had a loss in manufacturing base and a loss of some of our productive capability that can be filled with the green-collar jobs of tomorrow. But it will only happen if we recognize the scale and scope of both the challenge and the opportunity.
Not only weight loss surgery is unnecessary but also it deprives human being a normal life. People after surgery would never be able to enjoy their food ever for the rest of their life whether it is Christmas or they are on their holidays or their child birthday or any other festival. List of problems and complications after the weight loss surgery operation are endless as one may get additional problems such as Hernia, Internal Bleeding, Swelling of the skin around the wounds, etc. I wonder how many weight loss surgeons advice about weight loss surgery to their own family members.
I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.
Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.
Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.
And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.
I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
The first loss is the best 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.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.
The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.
Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.
There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)
A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has felt specific, one thing I miss with each loss is entirely selfish, I miss the way a particular person saw me, understood me. But part of the challenge of being alive is to remain curious in any circumstance and this has helped me with grief. I want to feel all the contours and contradictions of living.
I have no bone loss, no brain loss, I have a lot of energy and a lot of strength. My heart is perfect so I think I'm more ready than I would have been in my 20s, honest to God.
First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart.
... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
When seasons change in our life, it's difficult. Because it feels like loss and no one likes loss. And I go through, how do you do that? How do you take that transition without losing it in the curve?
In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.
Being anonymous is a great luxury. It's a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool.
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
A loss is a loss, examine why you lost. A win is a win, evaluate what made you successful.
The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.
There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.
You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.
Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated.
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.
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