Losing And Gaining Quotes

#1. We cried because we had lost something and gained something else. And because it hurt both losing and gaining. And because we knew what we had lost but weren't as yet able to put into words what it was we had gained.

Janne Teller

#2. After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

Valerie Bertinelli

#3. You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

Frederick Lenz

#4. It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted, it was usually necessary to give up something in return. Sometimes gaining what you defined as everything meant losing what you most needed.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#5. It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used.

Jess Walter

#6. The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#7. And there's one more thing to be aware of " Cam said with a wintry softness that disguised all hint of feeling. "If you succeed in marrying her we're not losing a sister. You're gaining an entire family - who will protect her at any cost.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Sharon Stone

#9. Losing something might be a blessing; gaining something might be a curse!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. On the contrary, knowing I AM inspires us to excel in every area of life. Further, the power of this "I am not" message is that when we compete, and hopefully win, we can avoid the pitfall of gaining the whole world and yet losing our souls.2 As

Louie Giglio

#11. Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker.
-Dan Cahill

Gordon Korman

#12. One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

Lao-Tzu

#13. By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.

Confucius

#14. I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."

Phyllis Diller

#15. Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

Raymond Burr

#16. Sometimes we have to lose somthing precious not necessarilly to gain something priceless; sometimes, just losing is priceless

Shahid Hussain Raja

#17. Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

Laozi

#18. Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

Donald Miller

#19. By letting go with gratitude, you are not losing anything, but you are gaining the wisdom, present moment, and future of endless possibilities.

Debasish Mridha

#20. True love is sacrifice. It is in giving, not in getting; in losing, not in gaining; in realizing, not in possessing, that we love!

J.P. Vaswani

#21. She hated this place. Nothing made sense. Nothing worked as it was supposed to. She was supposed to be learning things as she went along, gaining strength for her final battle. All she was doing was losing things, one thing at a time.

Anne Ursu

#22. people seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.

Robert B. Cialdini

#23. In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

James Burgh

#24. This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

Ann Voskamp

#25. Her body, the nucleic force of the furious scribble, was absolutely out of control: slipping and falling and flaking off, gaining much, losing little.

Ainslie Hogarth

#26. A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Lois Wyse

#27. I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Eknath Easwaran

#28. You are either losing your mind
or gaining your soul.

Julia Cameron

#29. Losing something is difficult while gaining something is easier. So try to gain beauty and make your life prettier.

Debasish Mridha

#30. George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and the inedible, still-rationed food, he concluded, So here I am losing weight and gaining pounds.

Milton Friedman

#31. Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

Gary L. Francione

#32. New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

Madame De Stael

#33. Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.

America Ferrera