Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. Abdul Kalam
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. Erich Fromm
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. Ambrose Bierce
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. Tryon Edwards
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. Hermann Hesse
