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"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

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

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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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon

 

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

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

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

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb

Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin

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

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

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

There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson

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

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus

If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

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

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir

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

Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine

There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa

There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss.
It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen

Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust.
- Mourning Dove

Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau

Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root.
- Henry David Thoreau

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly

He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill

To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser

Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong

A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
- Leslie Gore

If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

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