"Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions."

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Source : Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.65, Zondervan

Gerald Lawson Sittser

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“As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she would know she was in love when she would be willing to give up chocolate forever to be with that person for even an hour. Kate, a dedicated and hopeless chocoholic, had decided right then that she would never fall in love. She had been sure that no male was worth such privation.”
“I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.”
“The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.”
“The bar is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a clientele that doesn't like to talk.”
“I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.”
“I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.”
“Architecture is invention.”

Source : "Celebrating Niemeyer, Brazil's Modernist Master". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. November 12, 2010.
“Short on money, long on hope”

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