“Sometimes you have to lose what you have in order to gain what you need.”

“What have you gained since you haven't prayed? What will you lose if you pray?”

“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”

“What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.”

“Sometimes we are given exactly what we need. The precise people that you need the most come stumbling into your life. Sometimes you don't notice, and this is very sad. Sometimes you lose them again. This is sad too, but not as sad. Because what you have once had together you have forever.”

“To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain. You have to be risking yourself, not all the time, but enough of the time to be weighing things up, principle over self-preservation, the gains, the losses.”