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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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
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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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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
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
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
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
Those who own much have much to fear.
- 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
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
- Leslie Gore
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear
to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Sylvester Stallone
Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee
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
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.
But deep down below the surface of the average conscience
a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
- Carl Jung
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
- Jewel
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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