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“My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.”

Has Beens Together Mother Certain Parent Loss Results Wonderful Amount Married Teenager Working Together Autonomy Involving Wonderful Marriage

Author:Jessica Valenti

“The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.”

“It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Desire Guy Loss Compassion Successful Wonderful Football Program University Administrators Illinois Wonderful Friends

Author:Tyrone Willingham

“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.”

World Loss Wonderful Mankind Ordinary Disaster Explanation Uncommon Disregarded

Author:Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

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

Loss Pay Wonderful Drawing Mediums Ipads

Author:David Hockney

“I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro; I could be Irish; I could be Russian. I am spiritually a mix anyway, but I did have a solid childhood fortunately, because of some wonderful women who brought me up. I never had a father or a man in the house, and that was a loss...”

Knows Men Father House Parent Loss Wonderful Childhood Inheritance Wonderful Woman

Author:James A. Michener

“I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don't mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they're all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life.”

Thinking Mean Stills Important Loss Path Wonderful Groups Particular Core Adore Family And Friends Really Mean Mourn Nostalgic

Author:Katie Aselton

“[GEICO] got to thinking that, because they were making a lot of money, they knew everything. And they suffered huge losses. All they had to do was to cut out all the folly and go back to the perfectly wonderful business that was lying there.”

Thinking Lying Loss Cutting Wonderful Huge Folly Lots Of Money

Author:Charlie Munger