Quotes of the day

Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,
We ought to be together, you and I.
~Henry Alford

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.  ~Tryon Edwards

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.  ~Hans Nouwens

I think about you constantly, whether it’s with my mind or my heart. ~Albany Bach Reid

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.  ~Jaesse Tyler

I dropped a tear in the ocean.  The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.  ~George Lansdowne

In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
~Ben Jonson

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?  ~Nicholas Rowe

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay

Don’t be dismayed by good-byes.  A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.  And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.  ~Richard Bach

Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.  ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.  This is true of men as of dogs.  ~Eric Hoffer

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long.  If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~Henry Maudsley

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.~Kahlil Gibran

Let your tears come.  Let them water your soul.  ~Eileen Mayhew

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.  I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. 
~John Vance Cheney

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.  ~Christian Nevell Bovee

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.~Natalie Clifford Barney

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. ~Golda Meir

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.  ~Alfred Austin, Savonarola

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. ~Steel Magnolias

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.  ~Jewish Proverb

I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief.  Then I know I’m really crying.  Crying just isn’t crying unless it’s messy. ~D.H. Mondfleur

I often want to cry.  That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.  ~Jean Rhys

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.  Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.  ~Lewis B. Smedes,

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.  ~Antoine Rivarol

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.  ~George Herbert

There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris

Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.  ~Roberto Assagioli

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
~Oscar Wilde

Never waste jealousy on a real man:  it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ~Lawrence Durrell

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.  ~William Penn

Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.~Dorothy Parker

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.  ~Josh Billings

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.  ~Mark Twain

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.~Antisthenes

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.  ~Ovid

Tears are the silent language of grief. ~Voltaire

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.  ~George Eliot

Jealousy is a crutch. ~C. Astrid Weber

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.  ~Honore de Balzac

Forgiveness is a funny thing.  It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.  ~Isak Dinesen

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.~William Shakespeare, Othello

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
~Dorothy Dix

Envy is ignorance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.~William Shakespeare, Othello

I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying.~Amborella Oltre

Envy assails the noblest:  the winds howl around the highest peaks.  ~Ovid

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.  ~Danish Proverb

No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. You are no longer alive.

I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.

It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.  ~Leslie Grimutter

If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. ~Mark Twain

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

A day without you is like a day without sunshine… I miss you…

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

You may be out of my sight… but never out of my mind… I Miss You!