Sentences with phrase «losses than joy»

Studies show that people «feel» more pain from losses than joy they feel from gains.

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There was a lot of money made on residential property sales around Australia in the June quarter, but the joy wasn't spread around evenly, with more than 10 per cent of all houses and about 20 per cent of all units sold in Western Australia during the quarter selling at a loss.
For one thing, though it may enable the individual to achieve the heights of momentary ecstasy, it robs him in return of the ineffable joys of union and conscious loss of self in that which is greater than self: the element burns up all its future in a flying spark.
For me, few memories are better at framing the double exposure of joy and grief of parenting after loss than that one of me weeping for my babies in heaven while giving my rainbow baby the milk of life.
More than weight loss, I have realised that it is more important to stay healthy although I am ecstatic with joy over my progress.
Haneke's camera is scrupulously avoidant of anything remotely approaching exploitation or cruelty, but it doesn't flinch for a moment from the harsh physical and emotional realities of the dreadful situation, its confusion and loss and humiliation; that kind of unremitting honesty, however — that kind of acknowledgment of the painful, irremediable fact of death — makes for the most stirring, principled, and meaningful illustration possible of the truest meaning of love, the kind that goes much deeper and wider, and endures longer, than romance or joy or even togetherness.
We know, like Hopkins, that age will alter her innocent responses, and that life holds more than pure joy, but rather that «sorrow's springs are the same,» that loss is basic to the human experience.
Thatâ $ ™ s because humans are wired in such a way that the pain from loss is more intense than the joy we get from gain.
The number one reason why investors aren't able to stick to an investing strategy through thick and thin is that psychologically speaking, the pain you feel from losses are much more than the joy you feel from gains [6].
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