Laozi Quotes, Strength Quotes, Loss Quotes

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

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A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

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One of the biggest sacrifices in running for President, if there is one, is the loss of anonymity.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Loss Quotes , Men Quotes

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Regret Quotes , Loss Quotes

Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Loss Quotes , May Quotes

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

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To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

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Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Memories Quotes , Loss Quotes

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Grief Quotes , Loss Quotes

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Loss Quotes , Soul Quotes

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

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Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Art Quotes , Loss Quotes

... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fall Quotes , Loss Quotes

A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.

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