“If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.” IfsWritingSometimesLossResultsOfficePaperMessagesConsequenceResponseAccessCommitMagazinesBossReportersCandor Author:Ron Suskind
“Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.” LoveFeelingsPainProcessNaturalLossGriefNormalIncreaseResponseGrievingBereavementCondolencesGriefingGrief LossSympathy CondolencesCondolences And SympathyGrief ComfortStages Of GriefSympathy For A Friend Author:Anne Grant
“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.” ThinkingMightDeathActorsFeltLossCommonImpactResponseCatastropheInjuredDeprivation Book:Claremont essays Source: Claremont essays
“For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.” ThinkingHumansNaturalLossEmotionResponseNostalgiaInvoluntary Author:Michael Chabon
“On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.” KindMeanEndsHomeLossLevelsSituationSecurityEvolutionCrisisStructureResponsePossessionLoved OnesDeath Of A Loved OneThreateningBreaking DownBreakdownClose Relationship Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I'm not necessarily a happy person. I don't think that happiness is always the right response to a situation. I think we've come to a point in time where people are saying, "Oh, you know, loss and change, that's just normal."” PeopleThinkingKnowsPersonsLossSituationNormalResponseHappy Person Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson
“To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.” MeanMomentsFeelingsAbleActionTogetherChoicesPassionLossAbilityActingCreativityCreativePossibilityExpressionGoes OnFindingsMessagesUniqueResponseReactionsCarrieSuppressingMilieuAction And Reaction Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWellsDoePlayLossBrainKnow HowPlayerExampleOrdinaryGainsResponseTendenciesBridgesAffectedOrdinary People Author:Charlie Munger
“Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.” WorldImportantMovingNextLossAttentionEventsMindfulnessConnectionsThreatResponseConsideringFrantic Author:Barnet Bain
“Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.” FeelsHandsPainLossForgivingResponseNecksPain And LossAnger And Pain Author:William P. Young