Goodbye

Goodbye’s make you think, they make you realize what you had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted. ~ Unknown

We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive happy moments or say goodbye just one last time, we never can, because the sands of time continue to fall, and we can’t turn the hourglass over. ~ Unknown

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' ~ Charlie Brown

May Your Life Be Like Arithmetic:
Joys Added -
Sorrows Subtracted -
Friends Multiplied -
Love Un-Divided
Unknown

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. ~ Robert Kennedy

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ~ A. N. Whitehead

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies. ~ Maya Angelou

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~ Will Durant

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day
saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
Anonymous

Undo it, take it back,
make every day the previous one
until I am returned to the day
before the one that made you gone.
Or set me on an airplane traveling west,
crossing the date line again and again,
losing this day, then that,
until the day of loss still lies ahead,
and you are here instead of sorrow.
Nessa Rapoport, in A Woman's Book of Grieving

Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears,
but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you.
Twas heaven here with you, I loved you so.
Isla Paschal Richardson

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

If the future seems overwhelming, remember that it comes one moment at a time. ~ Beth Mende Conny

Sometimes the littlest thing in life changes something forever and there will be times when you wish you can go back to how things used to be but you just cant because things have changed so much. ~ Unknown

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair, I hate the way you drive my car, I hate it when you stare, I hate you big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind, I hate you so much it makes me sick .. it even makes me rhyme. I hate the way your always right, I hate it when you lie, I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it that your not around or the fact you didn't call...But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you, not even close, not even a little, not at all. ~ Unknown

Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had. ~ Unknown

People wonder why I cry, acting as if they care, but the only person I wish cared, doesn't even know Iim there. ~ Unknown

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~ Unknown

I made this choice to finally let go cause I can't stand this pain. It's time for the last tear to fall and me to smile again. ~ Unknown

Faces change, even smiles grow strange & we all have so many faces the real self often erases. ~ Unknown

I quit, I give up, nothings ever good enough for anybody else, it seems when I'm all alone its the best way to be, When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye, everything is temporary anyway. ~ Unknown

People never know how special someone is until they leave, but maybe sometimes its important to leave, so they are given that chance to see how special that someone really is! ~ Unknown

Are bad things creeping into your little pink plastic sugar coated world of happiness? ~ Unknown

So many of us had parts of our childhood that were painful and unpleasant. In order to escape, we often lived in our imaginations and dreamed of days in the future when life would be different, when it would finally be the way that we wanted it to be. This was the only way we thought we could have any control of our lives...when we grew up...when we could be in charge. As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today. ~ Unknown

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~ Unknown

I never thought I'd see so many sunrises...until I got to high school that is. ~ Unknown

The more I study,
The more I learn,
The more I learn,
The more I know,
The more I know,
The more I forget,
Why Study??
Unknown

You spend twelve years of your life trying to learn how to live, but every time you try to live in those twelve years you're told you're wrong. Then everyone you've grown to love is taken away, and scattered. That's what they should teach you. How to say good-bye and let go. ~ Unknown

I closed the door on my past, but it crept back in through the window. ~ Itmar Yaoz-Kest

When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls. ~ Unknown

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. ~ Shirley Temple Black

People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. ~ Satya Sai Baba

Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. ~ Nick Mirov

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~François de La Rouchefoucauld

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. ~ Charles Schultz

Everything Happens for a Reason
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there...to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be but when you lock eyes with them, you know that ever moment that they will affect your life in some profound way. And sometimes things happen to you at the time that may seem horrible, painful and unfair, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, will power or heart. Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occurs to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, life would be a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. Safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless. The people you meet affect your life. The successes and downfalls that you experience can create who you are, and the bad experiences can be learned from. In fact, they are probably the most poignant and important ones. If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them because they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart to. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and open your heart and eyes to little things. Make each day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let yourself fall in love, break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you. Create your own life and then go out and live it.
Unknown Author

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've
understood all your life, but in a new way. ~ Doris Lessing

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

No one cares if you are miserable so you might as well be happy. ~ Unknown

Bad things happen in life, but unfortunately we don't have the power to go back and make it better. The only thing you can do is smile and believe it or not it will get you through. ~ Unknown

Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean to forget the past or try and cover it up...it simply means move on and treasure all the memories. ~ Unknown

The only ones who hurt us are the ones we love because if it wasn't love we wouldn't care. ~ Unknown.

Peace is the happy, natural state of man: war his corruption, his disgrace ~ Thompson

Goodbye's make you think, they make you realize what you had, what you've lost, and what you've taken for granted. ~ Unknown

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~ Unknown

I'm holding on to something that used to be there, hoping it will come back, but knowing it won't. The moment may have ended but the memories will last forever. ~ Unknown

When you get into a space and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could hold on not a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Grieving is as natural as
Crying when you get hurt,
Sleeping when you are tired,
Eating when you are hungry
Or sneezing when your nose itches.
It is nature's way of healing
a broken heart.
Anonymous

Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
...Better far you should forget me and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rosetti

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. ~ Henry James

No problem is so big and complicated that it can't be run away from.~ Linus (Peanuts character by Charles Schultz)

Decide promptly, but never give your reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong. ~ Lord Mansfield

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. ~ Ambrose Bierce

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~ Clarence Darrow

The good ended happily and the bad ended unhappily. That is what fiction means. ~ Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earnest

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life. ~ Wyston Hugh Auden

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. ~ Charles F. Kettering

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness. ~ David Weatherford

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud
is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. ~ Anais Nin

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment. ~ Margaret B. Johnstone

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~ Charles Buxton

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. ~ E.V. Lucas

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. ~ Michael Althsuler