“The loss of what we have is pain more dire
Than not to gain the thing that we desire.”

“all our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.”

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.”

“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.”

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.”

“Sincerity is far more valuable than any deed or gesture done for the sake of gaining respect for what we have done for others.”

“The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.”

“Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.”

“He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.”