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I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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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
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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 never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
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
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
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
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
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
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
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
When you cry and weep,
when you are miserable,
you are alone.
When you celebrate,
the whole existence participates with you.
Only in celebration
do we meet the ultimate, the eternal.
Only in celebration
do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.
- Osho
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Today I Release All My Troubles And Grief.
- 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
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
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away.
- the movie Shrek 2
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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