For all sad words of tongue and pen, by John Greenleaf Whittier

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
by John Greenleaf Whittier

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- 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

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

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

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

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

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

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

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

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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

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

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller

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

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

Those whom we can love, we can hate;
to others we are indifferent.
- Henry David Thoreau

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley

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

When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel

The person who you're with most in life is yourself
and if you don't like yourself,
you're always with somebody you don't like.
- Marc S. Lewis

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

When I see your smile,
and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
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