Quotes About Loss

Don't cry for me, Argentina.

The worst things in life are the best things gone bad - Tim Sandlin

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

Nothing lasts. You think it's going to. You think 'Here's something I can hold on to', but it always slips away.

Nothing lasts," she says, and there's a little crack in her voice. "You think it's going to. You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad what could I do.

the mist of early morning peels away to reveal the same sight, the untended casualties of Western man's war with the rain forest.

by 1900, the tribes owned less than 2 percent of the land they once possessed. Entire languages had already disappeared—more than a loss of words, a loss of a way to look at the world.

El sufrimiento procede de tres patrones de pensamiento: pérdida, menos, nunca.»

Cubrir los inconvenientes: «Cada una de estas [personas] está obsesionada con no perder dinero. Pero

Show me an incumbent bigco failing to adapt to change, I'll show you top execs paid huge cash compensation for quarterly and annual goals." "Every billionaire suffers from the same problem. Nobody around them ever says, 'Hey, that stupid idea you just had is really stupid.'" "'Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.'—Peter Lynch

Answer me this: would you work harder to earn $100 or avoid losing $100? The smiley optimist says the former, but if research from the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University is any indication, fear of loss is the home-run winner. Experimental groups given $15 and then told the $15 would be rescinded if they lost a subsequent auction routinely overbid the most. Groups offered $15 if they won weren't nearly as "committed.

As legendary hedge fund manager Ray Dalio told Tony Robbins (page 210): "It's almost certain that whatever you're going to put your money in, there will come a day when you will lose 50% to 70%." It pays to remember that if you lose 50%, you need a subsequent 100% return to get back to where you started. That math is tough.

Qué has perdido por culpa de esa creencia o convencimiento? Míralo, óyelo, siéntelo.

The reason you're suffering is you're focused on yourself. People tell me, 'I'm not suffering that way. I'm worrying about my kids. My kids are not what they need to be.' No, the reason [these people are] upset is they feel they failed their kids. It's still about them. . . . Suffering comes from three thought patterns: loss, less, never.

In pondering the request for "green time," Corso theorized that radar had caused loss of the craft's control systems, resulting in its subsequent crash.

Every day I carry the weight of your absence" The Perfume Thief

The good people died first.

The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A

Teresa now observed that people quietly allowed their Jewish friends to slip away from their lives.

a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in Belarus wrote a last letter to her father: "I am saying good-bye to you before I die. I am so afraid of this death because they throw small children into the mass graves alive." She was among the more than five million Jews gassed or shot by the Germans.

The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp.

When history is removed, numbers go upward and memories go inward, to all of our peril.