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May you find great value in these quotes by Peggy Lee.
Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee
Related topics: Sad Feeling-Down Cynical
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
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
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
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away.
- the movie Shrek 2
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
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