Merle Shain Quotes

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

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.

Time takes all and gives all.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose... you lose to gain.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don't know what's going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

From every ending comes a new beginning.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.