Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
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)
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
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
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
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
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
"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
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
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 darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
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 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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau
Grief is the price we pay for love.
- Queen Elizabeth II
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
When I see your smile,
and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,
you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power,
a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with..
- the movie Simon Birch
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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