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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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)
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Today I Release All My Troubles And Grief.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
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
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
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