"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

-- James M. Barrie

#Loss Quotes #Reality Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?”
“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
“When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”
“You can't escape what you are, but you also should know what you could be. Why you're fighting.”
“I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.”
“When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.”

Source : "I’m a Christian, but I Enjoyed The Unbelievers" by Mike Lehmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2014.
“The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.”
“Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.”

Source : Speech in Rotherham, June 9, 1973.

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