Gayle Forman Quotes

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.

Time takes all and gives all.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

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

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

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

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.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

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

For everything you gain, you lose something.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

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

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

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.