There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Interpretation
The loss of a child is an unparalleled sorrow that profoundly alters one's existence.
This quote emphasizes the profound grief and irreversible change that comes with the death of a child. It highlights how such a loss creates a void that cannot be filled and reshapes the lives of those left behind in a way that is deeply significant and tragic.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a memorial service to express the deep sorrow of losing a child.
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'
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