Top 1200 Losing Ourselves Quotes & Sayings

One of the things that adds tension to our lives is small frustrations. Losing car keys can give you a panic attack. Not being able to find a comb when you get out of the shower, losing scissors and nail clippers, can make you fight with your roommate. The problem is that we think that these things are not supposed to happen to us. And that's what makes us tense. We think we can avoid these frustrations by making ourselves and others be more careful. I like to take the opposite tack-to assume that these things are a part of life and that they will happen no matter what.

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.

The major problem for America is we're losing two wars. We're losing in Afghanistan, we're losing in Iraq. And there seems very little likelihood that we're going to increase the number of troops we have in either place to the point that we can prevail.

You don't give out trophies for losing. Trophies for sucking. That's a communist idea. You don't get a trophy for losing. You get a piece of pizza and you shut up. Trophies for losing? What the hell happened to us?

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

When you're losing, and you're losing again, and you're losing 3... 4... 5 games in a row, it can be frustrating.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.

Losing sucks. Nobody wants to be known for losing; you can't even have fun when you're losing.

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

I don't want to go out there and show up. I hate losing. Everybody hates losing. But I hate losing.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

We're losing our companies; we're losing jobs; they devalue us out of business - China and these other countries.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth . . . the losing of our individual selves to gain a larger self.

But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

?ertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

I don't think about losing or worry about losing. I'm not afraid to let it go and I don't care if you beat me. If you do, that means you were the better man, but only elite fighters can beat me. There can't be shame in losing because you are up against great competition and there's always that chance.

We're losing touch with ourselves in the technological world, and it is increasingly important to take time out.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

It may sound simple, but both winning and losing can become a mind-set, and I won't accept losing - ever.

America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out.

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

I always give my all and I don't like losing. In fact, I hate losing.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

Losing has to be awful. You can never get used to losing. That's one of the biggest downfalls to a lot of teams.

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

Losing close relatives doesnt get any easier, really, but losing your parents is the big deal.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

These close games that we're losing, the teams are not beating us. We're kind of beating ourselves.

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.

I hate losing more than anything. I think losing is something that drives me.

We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves.

There was a culture that came out of the self-esteem movement which was don't anybody keep track of the goals. The kids keep track, but nobody keep track of the goals because we don't want the kids to have the experience of losing. And in depriving them losing, thinking it scarred them to lose, we made losing so taboo, so unspeakable, that we instead made losing more scary to kids, not less scary.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.

Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!”), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!”), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

The Democrats are losing. And look, folks, I don't mean to beat a dead horse here. I'm not doing anything other than pointing out what's actually factually happening. I'm not drawing any inferences from it. The Democrats are actually losing as themselves. They are losing elections if they are honest about what they want to do. It doesn't surprise me at all that Jon Ossoff would be running around.

We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)

It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own.

If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards we set down for ourselves, then maybe we don't have to do that with other people.

It's the worst feeling in the world - losing, and losing in a final on the big stage is even worse.