Losing Quotes (page 58)

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• heart
• world
• merit

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility. Walter Scott

• light
• true
• wonder

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again. Sue Monk Kidd

• business
• game
• busy

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. Roland Barthes

• love
• fall
• night

Don’t fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way. Anne Rice

• winning
• war
• cold

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose. Ronald Reagan

• busy
• business
• small

At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do. Howard Schultz

• top
• best friend
• personal

I waited at least two hours. I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him for ever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it. Not on top of everything else that had happened. I could feel my eyes tearing up and my throat starting to close the way it does when I get upset. Then I look up and there he was, three metres away, just... Suzanne Collins

• play
• game
• smile

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug. Jerome K. Jerome

• leaving
• meditation
• victory

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. Will Durant

• hurt
• embraces
• embracing

If you can't lick'em, join'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight , to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. Ursula K. Le Guin

• life
• she
• frustration

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration. Paulo Coelho

• inspirational
• keeps
• justly

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Jean Kerr

• dance
• loses
• dancing

When there's nothing left to lose, and nothing else to prove, I'll be dancing with myself Billy Idol

• forest
• sparkle
• winning

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves. Herman Hesse

• nothing to lose
• nothing
• after

...for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches. George Orwell