People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

Getting found almost always means being lost for a while.

It is easier to get lost within sight of the palace. [...] Hope makes all things near, and so can prove treacherous.

Es imposible encontrar secretos si no los buscas.

How can I be lost when I’ve never been found?

That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. The word ‘lost’ comes from the old Norse ‘los’ meaning the disbanding of an army…I worry now that people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know.

Advertising, alarmist news, technology, incessant busyness, and the design of public and private life conspire to make it so. A recent article about the return of wildlife to suburbia described snow-covered yards in which the footprints of animals are abundant and those of children are entirely absent. Children seldom roam, even in the safest places… I wonder what will come of placing this generation under house arrest.

Some things were better lost than found.

Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Well, perhaps the path appears straight when we look back at it. On the way, we often feel lost.

I don’t know what I’m looking for.”
“What not?”
“Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.