#loss

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

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#loss #prejudice #sometimes #vigor

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#administration #all americans #benefits #cutting #guaranteed

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#loss #lost-loved-one #spirit #death

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. ↗

— David Hockney

#drawing #how #i #i am #i see

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#culture #dreams #else #feel #i