#lose

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#closeness #cure #distance #heals #know

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#god #gospel #handicapped #hold #mentally

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it. ↗

— Michael Novak

#always #everlasting #every #founders #got

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible. ↗

— Novalis

#connected #invisible #more #than #visible

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#books #feature #history #history books #losers

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#decisions #life #losers #make #only

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#based #close #creativity #dangerously #director

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#connor #door #going #i #in the past

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#deliver #devices #economies #expensive #governments

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#because #big #close #discouragement #education