Theophilus London Quotes

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

I go through life accumulating possessions... I've always done it... and then, every once in a while, a sort of tidal wave comes along and washes them all away.

Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.

Sometimes you have to give up one good in order to get another good.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

Floyd Mayweather said it, perfect boxing career, undefeated, but he says that in life there's balance. He might have the perfect boxing career, but elsewhere there's loss.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind