What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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