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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth

until the hour of separation.

- Khalil Gibran

Related topics: Sad Feeling-Down Romantic Love

You can learn how to let go of the past.

Whether you have experienced a break up

with someone you cared for deeply,

whether death has taken a loved one,

whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,

whether you have lost a job.

Move on and let go.

Life can be joyful and rewarding again.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,

which, when a man hath forced up a hill,

will return upon him with a greater violence,

and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

- Albert Schweitzer

When you break up, your whole identity is

shattered. It's like death.

- Dennis Quaid

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I love to shop after a bad relationship.

I don't know. I buy a new outfit

and it makes me feel better. It just does.

Sometimes I see a really great outfit,

I'll break up with someone on purpose.

- Rita Rudner

Breaking up is a natural evolution

when you try to figure out what you want in life.

If you're with an individual

who isn't moving in the same direction

and at the same rate that you are,

it ain't going to work.

- Usher Raymond

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

- William Shakespeare

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,

Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

- Alexander Pope

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

- Emily Dickinson

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

- George Eliot

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...

it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

Every parting gives a foretaste of death,

every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

In a separation it is the one

who is not really in love

who says the more tender things.

- Marcel Proust

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic,

that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -

and there is no experiment up to now

that has found any center in the brain

which corresponds to awareness.

The whole work of meditation is

to make you aware of all that is "mind"

and disidentify yourself from it.

That very separation is the

greatest revolution that can happen to man.

Now you can do and act on only that

which makes you more joyous, fulfills you,

gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty.

But this is possible only if the master in you is awake.

- Osho

The assertion that "all men are created equal"

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain

and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

- Abraham Lincoln

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

Existence needs you.

Without you, something will be missing

in existence and nobody can replace it.

Thats what gives you dignity,

that the whole existence will miss you.

- Osho

Shoot for the moon.

Even if you miss,

you'll land among the stars.

- Les Brown

In your days - things like this happen to you...

You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake,

and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired -

but I don't want you to miss this."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Don't aim at success.

The more you aim at it and make it a target,

the more you are going to miss it.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;

it must ensue, and it only does so as

the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication

to a cause greater than oneself.

- Viktor E. Frankl

I won't miss you.

I will miss who I thought you were.

- Anonymous

When I see your smile,

and I know it's not for me,

that's when I'll miss you.

- Anonymous

Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.

- Anonymous

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

- Katharine Hepburn

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.

If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.

If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.

But I did, I do, and I will.

- Anonymous

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning

I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

- Winston Churchill

Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship,

of affection, of friendly intercourse,

and I am not made of stone or iron,

so I cannot miss these things without feeling,

as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need.

I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.

If you live through it, you start looking

very carefully to the right and to the left.

- Jean Kerr

When people get married because they think

it's a long-time love affair,

they'll be divorced very soon,

because all love affairs end in disappointment.

But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

- Joseph Campbell

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man

is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical.

Physical relationship divorced from spiritual

is body without soul.

- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you have been divorced, you know it hurts -

especially if your marriage had lasted many years.

Whatever the circumstances of your relationship,

and whatever the nature of its ending,

there is always grief and regret -

perhaps regret over the ending,

or perhaps regret over not ending the relationship sooner -

or perhaps both.

Nonetheless, move past the grief and regret.

No matter how painful, divorce, like all endings,

opens the door to new beginnings.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A divorce is like an amputation:

you survive it, but there's less of you.

- Margaret Atwood

Do real life people actually fall in love

with the idea of being in love?

Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.

Someone wants desperately to have

the husband or wife of their dreams.

They visualize the vine-covered cottage

with the white picket fence.

They choose the colors for the nursery.

They design all the aspects of their married life.

A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.

- Anonymous

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

- Groucho Marx

When two people decide to get a divorce,

it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,

but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

- Helen Rowland

There are four stages in a marriage.

First there's the affair,

then the marriage,

then children

and finally the fourth stage,

without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

- Norman Mailer

You cannot divorce religious belief and public service.

I've never detected any conflict between

God's will and my political duty.

If you violate one, you violate the other.

- Jimmy Carter

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,

it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

- Washington Irving

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

- Dylan Thomas

There is a time to cry for those we have lost,

and there is a time to wipe the tears and smile again.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs

when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,

because it can disappear for a long time,

and then pop back up when you least expect it.

- Lemony Snicket

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of every day's

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love with a passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When life offers you a dream so far

beyond any of your expectations,

it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.

Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.

Find someone who makes you smile

because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.

- Anonymous

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.

Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

- James A. Baldwin

At the beginning and at the end of love,

the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

- Jean de la Bruyere

The key is, to not think of death as an end,

but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.

- the movie Love and Death

When I despair, I remember that all through history

the way of truth and love has always won.

There have been tyrants and murderers and

for a time they seem invincible,

but in the end, they always fall ... think of it, always.

- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want a love message to be heard,

it has got to be sent out.

To keep a lamp burning,

we have to keep putting oil in it.

- Mother Teresa

Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,

within you, and radiates out of you,

and changes everything.

- Bartholomew

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,

as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

If we want a love message to be heard,

it has got to be sent out.

To keep a lamp burning,

we have to keep putting oil in it.

- Mother Teresa

If you have only one smile in you,

give it to the people you love.

Don't be surly at home,

then go out in the street

and start grinning good morning

at total strangers.

- Maya Angelou

I love you not only for what you are,

but for what I am when I am with you.

I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,

but for what you are making of me.

I love you for that part of me you bring out.

- Roy Croft

Move to your heart, Breathe.

Close your eyes and breathe deeply - slowly -

fill your lungs with love and gratitude -

exhale each and every trouble -

again and again - gratitude in, troubles out.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The success of love is in the loving -

it is not in the result of loving.

Of course it is natural in love

to want the best for the other person,

but whether it turns out that way or not

does not determine the value of what we have done.

- Mother Teresa

To fall in love is awfully simple,

but to fall out of love is simply awful.

- Bess Myerson

The fastest way to destroy love

is to make a goal out of it,

because people who are trying to be loved

come from a place that they're not loved.

- Werner Erhard

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort

of feeling safe with a person;

having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,

but to pour them all out, just as they are,

chaff and grain together,

knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,

keep what is worth keeping, and then,

with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- George Eliot

Falling out of love is very enlightening.

For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

- Iris Murdoch

Choose love. Choose to release all resentments.

Forgive everyone. Choose to release all regrets.

Forgive yourself for all decisions that you have ever made

that didn't work out as you hoped.

Forgive yourself for any financial decisions

that didn't meet your expectations.

Release your regrets if you choose

the "wrong" spouse or the "wrong" career.

Today, choose love.

Choose to love yourself.

Choose to love your life.

Choose to love all the friends, family, co-workers,

acquaintances, and others who share your life.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If it turns out that there IS a God,

I don't think that he's evil.

I think that the worst you can say about him

is that basically he's an underachiever.

- the movie Love and Death

Life is magnificent - just as it comes.

Life has no need for fancy clothes, or lipstick.

Life is no pig.

Our life is the greatest gift of all creation.

When we are unhappy with life -

when we are shocked by the stock market,

or dismayed by our choice of political candidates,

let us not lash out in anger.

But also, let us not try to pretty up life

with some lipstick and some party clothes.

See life clearly - no rose colored glasses -

and then CHOOSE to love life.

CHOOSE to be happy, be joyful, be grateful,

be forgiving of everyone and of every act

we believe has hurt us.

Life just "IS."

We get to CHOOSE our relationship with life.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.

I make mistakes, I am out of control

and at times hard to handle.

But if you can't handle me at my worst,

then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

- Marilyn Monroe

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.

Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

- Jimmy Carter

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May the world be kind to you,

and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie