Debbie Macomber Quotes

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

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

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

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

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

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

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

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

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

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

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.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

Life is about balance. You don't want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there's a balance to find. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.

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

There's no great loss without some small gain.