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

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.

There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It's the first thing I look at.

Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.

I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.

Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more.

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

At the end of the day, it's a big difference to get the draw than to get the win, but I'll take either over a loss any day.

A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.

Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

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