“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.”
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater. ”
“Sometimes you have to lose what you have in order to gain what you need.”
“I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?”
“To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first.”