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May you find great value in these Sad quotes and sayings.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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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
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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
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
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
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
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
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
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
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
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
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)
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
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
"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
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- 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
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
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