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A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain. -- John Frederick Demartini
Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down. -- Rumi
I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about... -- Cornelia Parker
All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides. -- Michael Mandelbaum
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. -- E. V. Lucas
Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies. -- Pol Pot
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? -- Jesus Christ
I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs. -- John Kasich
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain. -- Randal Cremer
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. -- Tom Clancy
Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain. -- Eric Liu
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
The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss. -- Alexis Herman
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. -- Marya Mannes
We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due. -- David Whyte
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. -- Alexander Meiklejohn
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of. -- Augustus Hare
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life. -- Thomas Jane
I've made mistakes in business, but none so big I couldn't recover and learn from them. The more you try to change consumer behaviour, the riskier it gets. You have to work out your potential losses against the obvious gains. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000. -- Daniel Kahneman
As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain. -- Joseph Nye
The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished. -- Suzanne Somers
An evil gain equals a loss. -- Publilius Syrus
Gain or loss, what is worse? -- Laozi
Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment. -- Kodo Sawaki
Every mortal loss is an immortal gain. -- William Blake
There's no great loss without some small gain. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
What is one man's gain is another's loss. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Progress may feel more like loss than gain. -- Mason Cooley
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss. -- Publilius Syrus
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss. -- Publilius Syrus
No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out. -- Pol Pot
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. -- Democritus
Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire. -- Dorothy Norman
Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain. -- Zig Ziglar
Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining. -- Laozi
REAL Peace is always unshakable... 'Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss' -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. -- James Russell Lowell
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser. -- Ian Fleming
On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss. -- Laozi
My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain." -- Jane Austen
For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments. -- Gayle Forman
Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss. -- Beth Moore
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. -- David Whyte
There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. -- Chilon
Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss. -- SebastiAn
Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful? -- Laozi
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. -- T. Scott McLeod
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. -- Seth Klarman
Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family. -- Linda Sunshine
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain. -- William Vickrey
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. -- Penelope Lively
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. -- Walker Percy
... no wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity. -- William Cowper
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. -- Merton Miller
To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain -- Richard Marx
Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb. -- Allen Tate
Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you. -- Benjamin Hoff
I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain. -- Duke of Wellington
The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain. -- Virchand Gandhi
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. -- Isaac Watts
The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain. -- John Steinbeck
Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in. -- Nora Roberts
At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money. -- Ethan Hawke
Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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