What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
When you are sorrowful, look again.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don't find many on the loss of friends, relatives, and lovers from death or alienation, though it happens all the time.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves, or a dynamo governing a particular sensibility or intelligence and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.
Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. ... “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,” ergo, shipwreck, losses, &c., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.
If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.
Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.
The loss of friends is a tax on age!
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
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