Losing Quotes - Page 28

• But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Games, People, Advice

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• That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

  John Green

  Holes, I Realized, Ifs

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.187, Penguin

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• Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

  Jo Nesbo

  Life Is, Reason, Worst

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• Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.

  Jim Butcher

  Cheating, Lying, Drinking

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• Eva: it's going to be a lot of work.,Gideon Gideon: im not afraid of work Im only afraid of LOSING YOU

  Sylvia Day

  Gideon, Not Afraid

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• I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Long, Growth, Mind

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.98, Random House

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• There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Mean, Blessing

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• It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.

  Sylvia Day

  Breathing, Touching, Gideon

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• There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Pain, Heart, Cutting

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.256, Wizards of the Coast

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• If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Boys, People

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mummy?' 'He's lost his marbles,' Ron muttered in Harry's ear. 'Hagrid,' said Harry loudly, 'give it a fortnight and Norbert's going to be as big as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment. Hagrid bit his lip. 'I- I know I can't jus' dump him, I can't.' Harry suddenly turned to Ron. 'Charlie,' he said. 'You're losing it too,' said Ron. 'I'm Ron, remember?

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Dragons, Giving

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• He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there." (ARC p. 63)

  Anthony Marra

  Dark, Hair, Together

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• As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The discovery was not a pleasant one. It seemed to me that I was losing a great deal. I asked myself, wasn't I sad, hadn't I felt my life breaking up? Yes, that had been true; but each minute, when I stayed without moving in a corner of the room, the cool of the night and the stability of the ground made me breathe and rest on gladness.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Memories, Moving, Night

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• About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

  Robert Fulghum

  Winning, Games, Play

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.211, Ballantine Books

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• So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice." "So would not thirsting to death," said Jack "Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill "It isn't?" "No." "Then what's the word?" "I dont know. You just can't." "Oh." This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Nice, People, Mind

  Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.71, Penguin

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• There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

  Tom Robbins

  Mean, Moon, World

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.

  Christopher Paolini

  Warrior, Knowing, Use

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• You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Winning, Self, Succeed

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• I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Dream, Stars

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• Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

  Terry Pratchett

  Views, People, Loser

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.130, Random House

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• Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?

  Gail Carriger

  Captains, Tiny, Poor

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• And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the people and the places you allowed yourself to care about--but guess what, Jennika--that's no way to live. As much as it hurts to lose something you love, there's much greater joy in getting to experience it for as long as it lasts.

  Alyson Noel

  Hurt, Pain, Grief

  Alyson Noel (2012). “Fated”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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• Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.

  Neil Gaiman

  Way

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• I’m losing my mind without you.

  Sylvia Day

  Mind, Without You, Losing My Mind

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.181, Penguin

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• I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mind, Losing My Mind, Lost My Mind

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