"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Death Quotes #Loss Quotes #Teach Quotes

“Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.”
“As a writer, my weapon is my pen. I want to create more awareness about the people in Syria. This is the most important issue: protecting civilians in this crazy war.”
“Faith offers the promise that everything will ultimately be renewed in God. This hardly means that we will, or must, receive an answer from God for every question in our lives.”
“Shoot what you can't help but shoot”

Source : "Gregory Heisler: exploiter of light". Interview with Jim Colton, nppa.org. March 26, 2014.
“He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.”
“In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.”
“When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.”

Source : Hilary Thayer Hamann (2011). “Anthropology of an American Girl”, p.74, Hachette UK

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