quotes about letting go of someone you love

To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb



If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. ~Jerome Singer



You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. ~Caroline Bird



The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. ~Aaron Kilbourn



There's more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown



She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"



If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ~Gene Tunney



A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature. ~David Suzuki



If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Unknown



God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying



In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. ~Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, 1926



A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951



Your heart knows all, pay it more attention. ~Sina G., @just_sina_



You might be a fireman if you've ever said, "she's hot tonight" and not been talking about a girl. ~Author Unknown



A sister is a forever friend. ~Author Unknown



Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx