#loss

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

#helplessness #history #hope #hopelessness #induces

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#choose #economic #environmental #every #gain

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#before #black #black holes #case #else

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title. ↗

— Thomas Hearns

#go #hungry #just #loss #made

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#biggest #days #debt #fail #fix

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#aspire #blossoming #jewish #land #new

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. ↗

— John Heywood

#dirt #happy #loss #man #sages

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#finding #loss #funny

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. ↗

— James Hillman

#admit #afraid #already #american #backward

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul. ↗

— James Hillman

#lose #losing #loss #means #soul