“In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.” PeopleSpeakRealizingLossNormalHarderEverydayHearingAccentsEveryday LifeNormal LifeHearing Loss Author:Katie Leclerc
“At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.” KnowsWayMayLongFactsSeemsPainLastsPastFacesMovingLossForgetKnowingConditionsSorrowComfortDespairHarderPainfulGods WillConfusionUncertaintyTemporaryNot KnowingBehaviourNumbHis Loss Author:Marya Hornbacher
“Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.” IfsFactsOpportunityStrongWealthLossKnowingGreaterTroubleDutyHarderStrongerBurdenGods WillGreater ThingsGreatest Wealth Book:Sermons for the new life Source: Sermons for the new life
“It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.” EvilNaturalLossEasierGainsAll ThingsHarderPrejudiceProofBias Author:Augustus Hare
“We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.” ThinkingYearsHeavenLossLibertyDangerDivineDifficultyHarderProsperityPreservesDivine Right Author:John C. Calhoun
“Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.” ThinkingWayShouldCertainLossHarderPatientEtcBe Patient Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth in human solidarity will help compensate for the loss of margin in the natural world that will make life harder.” PeopleThinkingWorldHumansHelpingGrowthNaturalLossCenturyToughHarderStartingSolidarityNatural WorldMargins Author:Bill McKibben