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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
John Steinbeck
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
Voltaire
“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.”
Stefan Kanfer
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses”
Caleb Carr
“You only lose what you cling to.”
Buddha
“The only thing you will ever possess is yourself, and that only briefly, if at all.”
Rain Bojangles
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Adversity and loss make a man wise”
Welsh Proverb
“The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result”
Francis Schaeffer