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Explore profound insights on the nature of loss and what it truly means to lose. Featuring timeless wisdom from thinkers like Nelson Mandela, Haruki Murakami, Helen Keller, Seneca, and Oscar Wilde, this collection offers perspectives on the things we miss, the courage to embrace life, and the enduring impact of love.

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00:00There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one
00:05you are capable of living.
00:08Nelson Mandela
00:11It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want
00:18of a wife.
00:20However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood,
00:25this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered the rightful property
00:31of some one or other of their daughters.
00:35Jane Austen
00:38To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness.
00:48Oscar Wilde
00:50What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose.
00:54All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
00:58Helen Keller
01:02We are like dead branches on a tree that are pruned away.
01:06We are like that, but with consciousness.
01:10Franz Kafka
01:14One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
01:20Virginia Wolf
01:24It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
01:30Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
01:34Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
01:39Annaïse Neen
01:42We are always imitating ourselves, and there is nothing else to do.
01:48Joan Didion
01:51Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with
01:58beauty and courage.
02:00Rainer Maria Rilke
02:05We are the ghosts of those who have died in the war.
02:11Eric Maria Remark
02:15We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as the heroes go by.
02:22C.S. Lewis
02:26Fear is the mind-killer.
02:29Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
02:33I will face my fear.
02:36I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
02:40And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
02:44Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
02:49Only I will remain.
02:51Neil Gaiman
02:55When you have lost yourself, you have lost nothing.
02:59Simone de Beauvoir
03:03We are condemned to be free, and that means to lose our innocence.
03:08Jorge Luis Borges
03:13Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
03:18Mary Oliver
03:22We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost
03:29our loved object or its love.
03:32Sigmund Freud
03:36If you hate a person, you hate something that is part of you, something that is part of our whole,
03:41something that is part of everything.
03:44Kerman Hesse
03:45Kerman traitor
03:47Teeth
03:47Sigmund Freud
03:47Sigmund
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