Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong 
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
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Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
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