Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

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

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

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

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

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

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

So you have to take the good with the bad.

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

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.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

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

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

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.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

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

One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

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

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

When much is taken, something is returned.

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

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