"We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion."
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"What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?"
"Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea."
"For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along."
"All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought."
"Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost."
"For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever."
"I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight."
"All that is not given is lost."
"The horror of being caged has lost its thrill."
"Honesty: The best of all the lost arts."
"I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led."
"You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part."
"When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed."
"I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere."
"Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!"
"If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost."
"Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us."
"Not everyone who wanders is lost."
"No one you love is ever truly lost."