No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.
Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.
Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly always felt so rich, so blessed, so sincerely full of "enough. ". . . I believe it is on this robust, overflowing. . . contemplative pathway that one gains the joy and serenity to be generous.
You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.
He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.
As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.
To deny being lovers in order to gain something. That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.
The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.