#loss

We have a right to decide how we want our bodies to look and feel, but unfortunately we do not exercise these rights. Instead, we tend to drift along, victims of our own ignorance of the fact that we can have what we want, if we are willing to take that first step toward developing the self-discipline to govern our thoughts. ↗

— Holly Mosier

#mind-body-connection #mind-body-spirit #mindfulness #purposee #stress-management

You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can’t eradicate. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s what part of it means to be alive. But inside our heads — at least that’s where I imagine it — there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let fresh air in, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live for ever in your own private library. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#library #life #little-room #loss #lost-opportunity

What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring. ↗

— Don Shula

#also #another #away #better #enough

Remember, you are not a heavy person trying to slim down. You are a trim, healthy person learning how to reemerge. ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#diet

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#life #losses #misfortunes #sorrows #worst

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#best #blossom #give #into #mission

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#cite #credibility #disturbing #events #growing

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#international #lives #losses #only #profits