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My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true read more
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses
If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your read more
If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a read more
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, read more
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed read more
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.