“Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?”
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
“If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.”
“With every choice, something is gained and something is lost.'' - John Green”
“We cried because we had lost something and gained something else. And because it hurt both losing and gaining. And because we knew what we had lost but weren't as yet able to put into words what it was we had gained.”
“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”