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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
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
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
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
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
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
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
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
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
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
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
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
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
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
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
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today I Release All My Troubles And Grief.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
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
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
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
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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