There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself. — Gayle Forman
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. — Haruki Murakami
The things we lose are not losses. They are entryways. They are the world saying, sometimes sharply, there is something else out there. — Brianna Wiest
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. — Eckhart Tolle
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you — Tablo
If there is a single lesson I have learned, it is this: in life, we are destined to lose many things. That is the nature of life. Never mind. Just don't lose the present. Nothing is worth it. — William Ury
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain] — Gerard Way
Short Losing Things Quotes
Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost. — Igor Sikorsky
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. — Eleanor Roosevelt
You must lose everything in order to gain anything. — Brad Pitt
Loss is not as bad as wanting more. — Lao Tzu
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. — Mick Jagger
To lose something in the will of God is to find something better. — Jack Hyles
The fear is for what is still to be lost. — Joan Didion
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect. — J. K. Rowling
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams
We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity — Megan Fox
Top 10 Losing Things Quotes
One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules. — J. Cole
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours. — Woody Hayes
The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure. — Neale Donald Walsch
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. — Madeleine L'Engle
Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love — Chiara Lubich
Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back. — R. M. Williams
There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me. — Snoop Dogg
Losing Things Image Quotes
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Losing Things In Life Quotes
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul? — Saint Francis de Sales
The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times. — Zig Ziglar
Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game. — Lionel Messi
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. — Muhammad Ali
The only thing harder than gaining a competitive edge is not losing an advantage when you have one…It’s a sign of what happens in so many areas of life: Competitive advantages don’t stick around for long. — Morgan Housel
If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. — Yoshida Kenko
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have. — Dong Dong
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope. — Hillary Clinton
Losing Precious Things Quotes
I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain. — L.A. Meyer
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man. — Owen Feltham
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent. — Alfred North Whitehead
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not. — John McGahern
The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost. — Lao Tzu
I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved. — Garrison Keillor
A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too. — Laila Lalami
The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them. — Edwidge Danticat
Losing Interest In Things Quotes
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another. — Bertrand Russell
When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested. — Richard Marx
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. — Carl Linnaeus
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things. — Christopher Guest
We live in a world that is so quick to lose people's attention, and to move on to the next thing. We live in a YouTube world, so it's hard to build something slow like you did fifteen or twenty years ago. You have to have the kind of show that keeps people interested. — Gary LeVox
We need time to lose interest in things. — Don Delillo
I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more interesting. I try not to take it too seriously, but I also try to never cheat or hurry things along. — Daniel Clowes
I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care. — Edward Ruscha
The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people are super weird, so I like to write characters that get addicted to things, lose their minds, hurt others, put themselves in bad situations. I'm just more interested in that. — Leslye Headland
I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that. — Jack Nicholson
What You Lost Quotes
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. — Kahlil Gibran
If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside. — T. D. Jakes
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. — Robert H. Schuller
The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. — Ram Dass
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are. — Madeleine L'Engle
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. — Simone Weil
Focus on your own strengths and what you have to offer. Don’t get lost in trying to become like someone else or pretending to be someone else. — Jay Shetty
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth? — Steve Buscemi
Lost Things Quotes
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. — Martin Luther
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! — Padraic Pearse
I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. — Karl Popper
A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections. — Paul Washer
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. — Ronald Reagan
We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy. — Desmond Tutu
The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. — Bruno Munari
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. — Robert Menzies
The interesting thing will be to see what the weather will do tomorrow. I lost my mirror during the final qualifying session but didn’t notice it, and it had no effect. Now we will see what happens in the race. — Kimi Raikkonen
I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back. — Prince
It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love though over your pride! — Fabolous
Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew the Apostle
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts
Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently. — Nizar Qabbani
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness. — Fulton J. Sheen
Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me — Elton John
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are. — Danielle LaPorte
I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I take when someone has taken from me. But I beg you to believe me; I have never done an act of espionage against France. Never. Never. — Mata Hari
Lost Money Quotes
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. — Anonymous
More money has probably been lost by investors holding a stock they really did not want until they could ‘at least come out even’ than from any other single reason. — Philip Arthur Fisher
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. — Federico Garcia Lorca
God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money. — Ben Affleck
By the time people realize that they have enough money, they’ve lost their time and their health. — Naval Ravikant
Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. — Bernard Meltzer
I would rather lose money than trust — Robert Bosch
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves. — Peter Lynch
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded. — Curt Flood
Losing Everything Quotes
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything. — Blaise Pascal
To accomplish much you must first lose everything. — Che Guevara
You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world — Trent Shelton
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. — Rudyard Kipling
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. — Teresa of Avila
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. — Lester B. Pearson
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. — Saint Francis de Sales
Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you can always control something. Your body - Use it...Amuse it...because one day...you're going to lose it. — Jeff Hardy
Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant. — Rick Warren
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly — Kahlil Gibran
After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace. — Helen Steiner Rice
Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt. — Mesa Selimovic
The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant. — Charlie Chaplin
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. — Albert Einstein
If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them Risk control is the most important thing in trading. If you have a losing position that is making you uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in. — Paul Tudor Jones
If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them. — Jacque Fresco
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. — Dante Alighieri
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. — David Platt
If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you. — Pope Benedict XVI
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. — Carl Jung
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment. — Phil Jackson
All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional. — T.I.
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people. — Young Jeezy
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Experience is the comb that life gives a bald man – A man who has lived long enough to lose his hair will no doubt know a thing or two about life. — Irish Proverbs
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. — Johnny Cash
There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room. — Diana Krall
The amazing thing is when people change nothing except removing major lectins, they start losing weight and they still are eating lots of calories, but we're not storing it as fat anymore. — Steven Gundry
Winners win. The only thing that separates people who don’t win from those who do is the ones who try. So as long as you continue to try, you can’t lose because that’s what it really comes down to. — Alex Hormozi
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different. — J. K. Rowling
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. — Cesare Pavese
Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds. — Richelle Mead
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. — Paul Simon
Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still. — Chuck Knox
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