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May you find great value in these quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
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
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish 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)
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
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
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
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"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
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
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
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
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