Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
Haruki Murakami
Related Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means... HARUKI MURAKAMI [Being pregnant again] just means everything to us, ... When we lost the twins, we thought we may ne... BOB PACK Once we cross this threshold, we've lost something we can never get back. BILL EDMONDS Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost! J.R.R. TOLKIEN All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything. CASSANDRA CLARE We all have to get our hope from somewhere, and if getting lost between the pages of a deep book giv... EMMA HART Let Us Keep Christmas Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining t... GRACE NOLL CROWELL I just think we lost to a better team. They took us out early and never let us back in it. MONTE STEWART To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to los... HAYAO MIYAZAKI They had us outsized at the forward and center spots. But again, that's something that we run into e... ADAM HOUDESHELL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to thin... RUSH LIMBAUGH We think about the lost lives, lost property and lost jobs. We are in fear. Some of us think it migh... KANAGALINGAN JANENTHRA Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we h... MASASHI KISHIMOTO This was a good one for us. We played hard yesterday and lost. Today we played hard again and never ... LISA VERRASTRO Every time we hear about how those other teams lost it just motivates us. We get tired of hearing ab... COREY BREWER When they came to get us, I was glad to see my father again, glad to get the animals out, glad to be... LUCIAN MITCHELL SR I don't think losing one battle means you've lost the war. JAN HIBBARD It just means everything to us. It doesn't take away the pain of losing Troy and Alana, but it does ... BOB PACK I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realiz... GORDON B. HINCKLEY By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had t... HARUKI MURAKAMI We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning. HARUKI MURAKAMI The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last fam... HIROMU ARAKAWA It hurts real bad. The worst part is we shouldn't have lost. We had them. They were ripe. The hardes... DEREK RAIVIO You have to get over (losing). When I lost I had to come back. MATT DUNN If You're Disappointed Or Lost Something, Don't Stay In That Situation For Long.... Be Like Hydra Wh... MUHAMMAD IMRAN HASAN Not every lost soul wants to be found, because not every lost is lost, some of them found something ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN We're very happy because this is what we wanted. We had lost hope but this has given us hope again. ELIZABETH HERNANDEZ That's something that we believe in our organization. We want every player who ends up with us to be... LOU LAMORIELLO You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of m... PAUL AUSTER I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop t... HELEN KELLER Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad. PROVERB The pain of having lost something is never equal to the pain of having lost someone. OUSSAMA HEDHLI We can't control what happened, we can't control what has been lost. What we can control is how we f... CATHY GIPSON If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our... TARA BRACH It was huge. We were on our heels. I'm sure the feeling in the stands was, 'Oh, no, here we go again... KEN HITCHCOCK But we were able to eventually get through that and pay back what we lost, and we got our money for ... BILL WHEELER After we lost those seniors, a lot of people counted us out. We had to start over and prove ourselve... KATE SULLIVAN Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. TERRY BROOKS All the young kids have fit in. They've helped us win. I mean it looked a little gloomy there losing... BOBBY COX We dug ourselves a hole and now we've got to get back out of it. I'm surprised [by the mark], but ev... COLEMAN COLLINS It was a real tough loss. Every game is like a must-win for us right now. We're having a bad losing ... BEN GORDON When we don't know where life is taking us, we are never lost. PAULO COELHO How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Never leave any thing for tomorrow as we are not living eternity.Begin doing the things at the first... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place con... DAISAKU IKEDA No matter how caned I got, I never lost sight of how much my mum means to me, and things are great b... ROBBIE WILLIAMS What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? ARNA BONTEMPS Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigatin... PETER LANDESMAN I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. I call them part of the joy of... JUDY COLLINS What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, th... JORGE LUIS BORGES What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. CELESTE NG we will get to the truth. That’s what we’re all asking for. We lost, probably yes, but we still ... CORAZON AQUINO Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishin... ROBERTSON DAVIES After we lost to St. Joe's, we knew we had to step it up. It's not fun losing, but I think that game... DEVEREAUX PETERS We got one back since we lost to them (at Park Rapids). We played well and Redmond hit some big shot... BRET SERGENT This feeling of being in proximity to something that’s lost to you, it seems like my whole life ri... ADAM JOHNSON We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the fore... URSULA K. LE GUIN Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of w... MARIA MONTESSORI The fires have been extinguished, but it is up to each and every one of us to see they are never lit... GERHARD WEINBERG If love is never found then it can never be lost, this is why many are loveless. not because they ca... JOHN DORELIEN But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again. RAY BRADBURY Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss mean... JOHN SCALZI We lost a single game. That shouldn't be cause for us to say, 'Let's fire de la Torre or Ricardo (La... JARED BORGETTI Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is�... BHASKARYYA DEKA It definitely brought us together. We definitely realized that it's not just one of us has to do som... CASSIE COOPER Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and ... JUNOT DIAZ For instance, someone's china set. That can be saved. that means something to people that have lost ... BRANDON DARBY We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept batt... ADAM ALLEN We knew the way (the Cougars) played they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battli... ADAM ALLEN Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA If we lost this game, we might be done, ... It shows we can battle back. If feels good whenever I ge... CHAD CORDERO Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves? CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive. CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. GEORGE SANTAYANA Every day we don't get something like this in place, that's another day of lost opportunity. I don't... BOBBY JINDAL Every drop is precious to us. PAUL RUSKIN The story gives us back that which many of us have lost within ourselves -- our childhood innocence. ROBERT MORROW So you know mixed feelings is kind of an unpleasant experience to come upon something like that, but... HEINZ WAHL I thought that we played really good cricket. It's just unfortunate that we lost a few wickets. That... RYAN HINDS We gave everybody what they wanted to see. He gave it his all and I gave it my all. One of us had to... LEBRON JAMES Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it. L.M. MONTGOMERY How to Get Back Lost Love | +91-9501666690
http://www.lovespellanil.com/how-to-get-back-lost-love.ht... ANIL AGHORI Lost time is never found again. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lost time is never found again. JOHN H. AUGHEY Lost time is never found again. PROVERB And most days she is lost; The kind of lost that isn't supposed to be found again. MAHNOOR NASEER It really doesn't matter that we lost those three games by five points. What matters is that we lost... MATT NELSON Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of yo... ELLEN DEGENERES I lost everything. But what the heck. This helps us keep our spirits up, and we need all the help we... ANDREW HUNTER We seem to be finding it more and more difficult to identify our common ground, as if we have lost s... JAN PETER BALKENENDE It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive agai... BIBLE A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i... JOHN ADAMS We suddenly arrived in this very lost and strange city. Somewhere in the middle of the mountains. We... NINA HRUSA The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn’t work that w... RICHARD PAUL EVANS Some people are listening to us. But one life lost is one too many. COLLEN MSIBI
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI