Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
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.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.
I remember when we kissed. I still feel it on my lips. The time you danced with me with no music playing. I remember the simple things. I remember till I cry. But the one thing I wish I'd forget, the memory I wanna forget is goodbye.
Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
You can fall, but you can rise also.
Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.
The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and... you know, 72 hours of ice cream.
Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your power is limitless. You can accomplish anything you wish to accomplish. -President Gordon B. Hinckley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Never fall out of love with life
There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.
When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.
It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.
There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
I won't let the sun go down on me.
It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.
As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.
I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.
Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.
If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while.
Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.
To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
Moving on has allowed me to know who I am and to be present in all that I do. I take this forward in my work and in my personal relationships. It is a powerful program and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to move on with their life.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
Life moves on and so should we
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.
Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other
If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.
If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.
You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.
Don't cry over spilled milk
The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
Forget the past.
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
The heart was made to be broken.
80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.