Quotes About Loss

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures.

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.

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

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'