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As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever. -- Erin Gray
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living. -- David Whyte
I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life. -- John Travolta
Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control. -- Christopher Bollen
Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year. -- Rex Reed
Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was. -- Linda Ronstadt
Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it. -- Rees Howells
To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better. -- Richard Ford
Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss. -- Rebecca Solnit
He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living things, funnily enough. -- Adam P. Knave
The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it. -- Elizabeth Drew
The loss of body hair is interesting to anthropologists, because it is a feature that distinguishes us from our nearest living relatives, chimpanzees. They have body hair, we don't. -- Mark Stoneking

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