quotes about change and letting go

What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown



The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. ~Salvador Dal�



The saddest are these: "It might have been!"



Life didn't promise to be wonderful. ~Teddy Pendergrass



With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. ~Edison Haines



Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk



Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle



The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli



So much fabric, so little time! Or, sew much fabric, sew little time! ~Author Unknown



Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. ~Tryon Edwards



The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault), The Red Lily, 1894



Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. ~George Eliot



Accidents hurt - safety doesn't. ~Author Unknown



You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. ~C.A.R. Hoare



To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ~Euripides



You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~Walt Disney



Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ~Franklin P. Jones



What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits... ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust



A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. ~Jerome K. Jerome