“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.” ThinkingWorldGivingHas BeensMadeSaidI CanMightDiesChoicesLostVoiceLossHavensStrangeBreathsBreatheMight Have BeenGiving Back Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.” IfsGivingLooksActionEarthTurnsHeavenDarkLossSkyTearsGainsBlueCloudsDeedsAccomplishPurityDragonsStakesSoarHeaven And EarthBlue SkyResoluteBroodingWhirlwindAzurePersonal Gain Author:Yukio Mishima
“Nick, space. Now. (Acheron) Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian’s number on it. ‘In case of loss, call my owner.’ (Nick)” GivingShouldLossSpaceNumbersBoysCasesLet MeGive MeOwnersLeatherCollarsTagFetch Book:The Dream-Hunter Source: The Dream-Hunter
“What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)” IfsGivingDifferentEndsRememberDiesNamesLosesLossWorryPiecesShapesGainsWoodsDiscriminationSubstanceChairsUnhappinessAshesDifferent NamesFirewood Author:Swami Satchidananda
“The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.” PeopleGivingEnoughJoyFoundLossSimplePrinciplesTeachPracticeSorrowGainsHumbleFulfillmentLaying Down Author:Elisabeth Elliot