goodbye quotes for lovers

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. ~Jeremy Rifkin, World Press Review, 30 December 1989



Civilization is what makes you sick. ~Paul Gauguin



I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903



Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ~Richard Carlson



Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon. ~Peter Lynch



Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down. ~Toni Morrison



Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. ~Zig Ziglar



Unfortunately, it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric hues. ~Wendell H. Stephenson



Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire



Flirtation: attention without intention. ~Max O'Rell, John Bull and His Island



The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses. ~Henry Van Dyke



Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them. ~Plutarch



To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. ~Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinthes, 1962



Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ~Michael Novak



Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois



Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc



A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ~Author Unknown



A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~Andre Maurois



Belief is when someone else does the thinking. ~Buckminster Fuller, 1972



The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. ~Ann Strong