A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.
Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.
Use it or lose it.
You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
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