For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw 
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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.
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Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- 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
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
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
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
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)
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- 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
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
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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