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
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
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)
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- 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
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
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
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
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
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
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
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
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
"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
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We are addicted to being the way we are
- don Miguel Ruiz
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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