It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall 
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root.
- Henry David Thoreau
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- Henry David Thoreau
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- Albert Einstein
It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with..
- the movie Simon Birch
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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