I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.
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.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.