"Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose."
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"Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature."
"Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost."
"It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us."
"Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?"
"A battle avoided cannot be lost."
"I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear."
"When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality."
"I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue."
"The only paradise is paradise lost."
"The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there."
"Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you."
"What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable."
"Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?"
"I've lost my faith in science."
"But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again."
"It is only through timidity that states are lost."
"I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion."
"Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again"
"My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house."